DOI: 10.3886/icpsr20344
title: Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence in Chicago, Illinois, 1994-2000
title: Archival Version

description: This study used data from the first two waves of the
 Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) to
 analyze the consequences of childhood exposure to intimate partner
 violence. The researcher for this study attempted to make four
 contributions: (1) provide theory driven research in the field of
 intimate partner violence, (2) do practical research, (3) strike a
 balance between the resolution of measurement problems and the
 examination of concrete outcomes, and (4) use high quality data and
 advanced statistical techniques to adjudicate between conflicting
 findings in existing literature. The nine data files used in this
 study were drawn from multiple imputed iterations using the
 Expectation-Maximization (E.M.) algorithm and data augmentation to
 address missing data. They included data from two waves of the PHDCN,
 with 4,955 records for each wave. The data included information for
 subjects aged 0 to 18 and covered the years 1994 to 2000. The
 researcher used various scales to measure domestic violence exposer,
 the impact of exposure on the child's cognitive functioning, the
 behavioral impact of exposure to domestic violence, anxiety, and the
 parent-child relationship. Data include the variables that the
 researcher used to study the effect of domestic violence exposure on
 not only externalizing, internalizing, and total behavior problems,
 and academic and cognitive ability, but also truancy, grade
 repetition, and drug use. This study also contains a selection of
 variables from several PHDCN studies including those pertaining to
 intimate partner violence, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, deviance
 of peers, alcohol use, primary caregiver involvement in the subject's
life, and demographics.
description: This study analyzed the consequences of
 childhood exposure to intimate partner violence. The researchers for
 this study attempted to make four contributions: (1) provide theory
 driven research in the field of intimate partner violence, (2) do
 practical research, (3) strike a balance between the resolution of
 measurement problems and the examination of concrete outcomes, and (4)
 use high quality data and advanced statistical techniques to
 adjudicate between conflicting findings in existing literature.
 The PHDCN data were collected to be representative of neighborhoods
 in Chicago. The data from the PHDCN was chosen for this project
 because of this representative quality of the sample frame, the large
 sample size, and the longitudinal nature allowed the same child to be
compared at different ages.
description: The nine data files used in this study were
 drawn from multiple imputed iterations using the
 Expectation-Maximization (E.M.) algorithm and data augmentation to
 address missing data. They included data from the first two waves of
 the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) with
 4,955 records for each wave. The data included information for
 subjects aged 0 to 18 and covered the years 1994 to 2000.
 The researcher used Straus and Gelles' Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS)
 (see PROJECT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS (PHDCN):
 CONFLICT TACTICS SCALE FOR PARTNER AND SPOUSE, WAVE 1, 1994-1997
 [ICPSR 13583]) for the child's mother and her partner to measure
 domestic violence exposure. The researcher measured child outcomes
 using several scales. The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
 (WISC) (see PROJECT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS
 (PHDCN): WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN-REVISED, WAVE 1,
 1994-1997 [ICPSR 13604], and PROJECT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHICAGO
 NEIGHBORHOODS (PHDCN): WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR
 CHILDREN-REVISED, WAVE 2, 1997-2000 [ICPSR 13664]) and the child's
 grades were used to measure the impact of exposure on the child's
 cognitive functioning. Achenbach's Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
 (see PROJECT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS (PHDCN):
 CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST, WAVE 1, 1994-1997 (ICPSR 13582) and PROJECT
 ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS (PHDCN): CHILD BEHAVIOR
 CHECKLIST, WAVE 2, 1997-2000 [ICPSR 13611]) and questions about child
 truancy, grade repetition, and drug use were used to assess the
 behavioral impact of exposure to domestic violence. Anxiety was
 measured by the anxiety sub-scale of the CBCL. The parent-child
 relationship was measured by selected questions from the Home
 Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) scale (see
 PROJECT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS (PHDCN): HOME
 OBSERVATION FOR MEASUREMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, WAVE 1, 1994-1997
 [ICPSR 13594]).
 For this study, the researcher defined domestic violence as the use
 of physical force (for example, forcible restraint, slapping, shoving,
 throwing objects at, hitting, kicking, biting, burning, sexual
 assault, or murder) or threat of the same against an intimate partner
 (someone with whom the perpetrator was involved in a romantic or
 sexual relationship for at least a month). Additionally, exposure to
 domestic violence was defined as cohabitation with a primary caregiver
 who was a perpetrator or victim of domestic violence. The definition
of childhood included aged 0 to 18.
description: Data include the variables that the researcher used
 to study the effect of domestic violence exposure on not only
 externalizing, internalizing, and total behavior problems, and
 academic and cognitive ability, but also truancy, grade repetition,
 and drug use. This study also contains a selection of variables from
 several PHDCN studies including those pertaining to intimate partner
 violence, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, deviance of peers,
 alcohol use, primary caregiver involvement in the subject's life, and
demographics.
description: none
description: Response Rates: Not applicable.
description: Presence of Common Scales: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Achenbach's Child
 Behavior Checklist, Home Observation for Measurement of the
 Environment, Provisions of Social Relations, Deviance of Peers Scale,
Conflict Tactics Scale, and Child Conflict Tactics Scale.
description: Stratified probability sample.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Data From 500 Iterations of Data Augmentation
DS2: Data From 1,000 Iterations of Data Augmentation
DS3: Data From 2,000 Iterations of Data Augmentation
DS4: Data From 3,000 Iterations of Data Augmentation
DS5: Data From 4,000 Iterations of Data Augmentation
DS6: Data From 5,000 Iterations of Data Augmentation
DS7: Data From 6,000 Iterations of Data Augmentation
DS8: Data From 7,000 Iterations of Data Augmentation
DS9: Data From 8,000 Iterations of Data Augmentation
description: Children, adolescents, young adults, and their primary
caregivers, living in the city of Chicago in 1994-2000. Smallest Geographic Unit: none
description: face-to-face interview; telephone interview(1) The PHDCN was a large-scale, interdisciplinary
 study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and
 adolescent development. One component of the PHDCN was the
 Longitudinal Cohort Study, which was a series of coordinated
 longitudinal studies that followed over 6,000 randomly selected
 children, adolescents, and young adults, and their primary caregivers
 over time to examine the changing circumstances of their lives, as
 well as their personal characteristics, that might lead them toward or
 away from a variety of antisocial behaviors. Numerous measures were
 administered to respondents to gauge various aspects of human
 development, including individual differences, as well as family,
 peer, and school influences. For more information about the PHDCN,
 users are encouraged to read the study descriptions for the PHDCN
 studies utilized by the researcher, or users can access the
 information on the PHDCN
 Web site. (2) For a detailed explanation of the statistical
 processes used, please see the technical report in the documentation
that accompanies these data files.