The Importance of Recurring Campus Surveys of Interpersonal Violence: An Analysis of Period and Cohort Effects. (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhang, Chenghui; Li, Caihong R.; Follingstad, Diane R.; Chahal, Jaspreet K.
• Is Part Of: Journal of school violence. Volume 22:Number 1(2023)
• Page Start: 14
• Page End: 27
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: Campus survey -- interpersonal violence -- cohort effect -- administration year; School violence -- Prevention -- Periodicals; School environment -- Periodicals; 371.78205
• DOI: 10.1080/15388220.2022.2121714
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1538-8220

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Assessing change in campus interpersonal violence over time is an important step to understand the nature and prevalence of students' victimization experiences. Using a repeated cross-sectional campus survey of interpersonal violence from a large southern university, this article tracks the change of students' victimization experiences over a three-year period for two identified undergraduate student cohorts and offers empirical evidence to determine the best time in a college student's career to initially launch a campus interpersonal violence survey and how often such data should be collected. Controlling for demographic characteristics, the results indicate that both administration-year-effect and cohort-effect exist. The results further suggest that yearly campus interpersonal violence surveys would be most beneficial to track campus interpersonal violence change.