DOI: 10.3886/icpsr37170
title: Continuation of Dating It Safe: A Longitudinal Study on Teen Dating Violence, Houston, Texas, 2010-2018
title: Archival Version

description: Dating It Safe is a longitudinal cohort study of 1,042 youth in southeast Texas. Primarily freshmen high school students were recruited and assessed in the spring of 2010. Follow-up waves were collected annually each spring from 2011 through 2017 (Waves 2-8). The primary aims of this research study were to examine the: longitudinal association between the three different forms of teen dating violence (TDV; i.e., physical violence, psychological abuse, and sexual aggression), and risk and protective factors of TDV perpetration and victimization.
description: Primary aims of this research study were to examine the: longitudinal association between the different forms of teen dating violence (TDV). longitudinal association between modifiable risk and protective factors and TDV perpetration and victimization. differences in gender and ethnicity in TDV perpetration and victimization over time. risk and protective factors to concurrently and prospectively predict dating violence. design plan of a TDV prevention program that will explicitly target modifiable risk and protective factors.
description: For Baseline (spring 2010), Wave 2 (spring 2011), Wave 3 (spring 2012), and Wave 4 (spring 2013) assessments occurred during school hours using paper/pencil questionnaires. For the remaining three waves, the survey was completed via a web-based platform in the spring of 2014, 2015, and 2017. Written parental consent and child assent were obtained. Participants were re-consented when they reached the age of 18.
description: The principal investigators provided a year by year crosswalk of major topics / study measures covered in each wave. Topics covered during the majority of waves include: dating and relationship history dating violence - victim and perpetrator sexual history, pregnancy, and pregnancy prevention drug, tobacco, and alcohol use - lifetime, past year, and past month use general physical health mental health - anxiety, depression, PTSD, and hostility conflict resolution, stress, and coping relationship expectations, attitudes, and beliefs gender norms and attitudes delinquency, crime, and weapons bullying including cyberbulling sexting peer and parental relationships and behaviors body image
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description: Response Rates: Of the 1,702 students present on recruitment days, 1,215 returned parental permission forms (71%). From those returning permission forms 1,119 students obtained parental permission to participate (66% of those recruited; 92% of those who returned permission forms). Of these 1,119 students there were 1,046 completed surveys (62% of those recruited; 94% of those who received parental permission). Four surveys were discarded because of overt random responding, which resulted in a total of 1,042 participants recruited and assessed at baseline. Follow up waves maintained a high level of participation. Wave 2: 93%, 964 completed surveys Wave 3: 86%, 894 completed surveys Wave 4: 75%, 776 completed surveys Wave 5: 67%, 698 completed surveys Wave 6: 73%, 758 completed surveys Wave 8: 66%, 685 completed surveys All 7 data files contain every case (n=1,042) regardless if the follow-up survey was completed.
description: Presence of Common Scales: CADRI for dating violence AWSA for attitude toward women ECR-RS for experiences in close relationships SCARED for anxiety BIS-11a for impulsivity CESD-10 for depression PC-PTSD for PTSD AFQ-Y for Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire CTQ-SF for childhood trauma PSS for stress KidCope for coping AICQ for conflict resolution
description: Participants were recruited from seven high schools from multiple Houston-area school districts. At baseline the mean age of the sample was 15 years, and 56% were female. The racial/ethnic distribution of the baseline sample was 28% African American, 29% white non-Hispanic, 31% Hispanic, 4% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 8% Mixed/Other. Study recruitment occurred during school hours in freshman and sophomore classes with mandated attendance (i.e., health, media literacy, world geography, and English). All students present in the selected classes were eligible to participate.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Baseline Data (2010) DS2: Wave 2 Data (2011) DS3: Wave 3 Data (2012) DS4: Wave 4 Data (2013) DS5: Wave 5 Data (2014) DS6: Wave 6 Data (2015) DS7: Wave 8 Data (2017)
description: High school students enrolled in Houston, Texas area school districts in the spring of 2010. Smallest Geographic Unit: None
description: on-site questionnaire; web-based surveyThe National Institute of Health (NIH) funded the first three waves of data collection. Beginning in Wave 4 the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funded Waves 4, 5, 6, and 8. Please note that Wave 7, which occurred in 2016, was a brief health survey which was not funded by either NIH or NIJ and thus excluded from this data collection.The seven data files may be linked together by using the unique student identification number (<strong>ID</strong>). The first digit of this 4-digit identification number represents the school. The remaining thee digits is a unique number created by the Principal Investigator for that student for that school. There is no variable that identifies and allows grouping of students by school.With the exception of the baseline data file (DS1) the remaining files contain a year designation affixed to the end of each variable name. For example, for Wave 2 each variable ends with <strong>_Y2</strong>, and Wave 3 with <strong>_Y3</strong>, and so on. This was done to differentiate the same variable names that exist across multiple waves of data.A secondary data analysis project, available from ICPSR, provides additional syntax created by another researcher based upon this Dating It Safe data collection. This secondary data analysis project is entitled A Longitudinal Examination of Teen Dating Violence From Adolescence to Young Adulthood, Houston, Texas, 2010-2018 (ICPSR 38322). This study collection is publicly available. There are no data files associated with this secondary study. It is only the syntax files.