ADOLESCENT VICTIMS AND NON-VICTIMS OF VIOLENT LIFE EVENTS: RELATIONSHIPS AND DIFFERENCES AMONG MEASURES OF SELF-REGULATION AND ANGER.
Contributors: University of South Carolina.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Psychology, General.
Description: The purpose of this descriptive correlational research was to explore relationships between measures of self-regulation and anger in adolescent victims and non victims of violent life events. Data used in this research was retrieved from the Carolina Adolescent Health Project (CAHP), a three year NIMH grant (Hardin, 1990-1993), designed to examine the longitudinal effects of Hurricane Hugo on adolescents.

The main data collection instrument used by the CAHP was the 174 item CAHP Survey. For the present research, only seventy-five (75) of the items were used; the twenty-four questions on anger, twenty questions on life events, five of which are related to violent life events, and thirty-one questions on the Carolina Self-regulation Inventory (CSRI). The AX was an embedded measure in the CAHP Survey. The CSRI was a baseline measure for the subjects of the CAHP.

The sample for this study was nine hundred and eighty-five (985) freshman and sophomore high school students between the ages of fourteen and seventeen. The sample was taken from two high schools in southeastern South Carolina.

Data analysis revealed significant differences between victims and non victims for anger-in and anger-out. Victims scored higher on measures of anger-in and anger-out than non victims. Statistical differences were also found between the variables for anger-in and self-regulation, and anger-control and self-regulation.

In this research blacks reported a higher incidence of violent life events than whites. Black females were more likely to be a victim of a violent life event than any race or gender. Black males were more likely to be a victim of violence than white males. The highest incidence of violence was reported in the area of being touched in the private areas, in a way that made the subject feel uncomfortable. Males were more likely to be held up with a knife or a gun, and beaten or attacked.

This research concluded that an important area for study is victimization among adolescents. The author suggests future research and intervention programs be developed to the fullest to assist adolescent victims, especially black females.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01, Section: B, page: 0170.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1994.

School code: 0202.