Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence in Chicago, Illinois, 1994-2000
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.