Coercive Sexual Environments: Development and Validation of a Scale

In this article, we present the results of our efforts to develop and test a scale to operationalize and measure a neighborhood-level indicator of coercive sexual environments (CSEs), a construct emerging from our earlier work on safety and sexual threats among young girls living in chronically disa...

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Published in:Journal of interpersonal violence 2019-01, Vol.34 (1), p.27-49
Main Authors: Popkin, Susan, Hailey, Chantal, Zweig, Janine, Astone, Nan, Jordan, Reed, Gordon, Leah, Silverman, Jay
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Case management
Coercion
Disadvantaged
District of Columbia
Female
Females
Girls
Housing
Humans
Minority Groups - statistics & numerical data
Neighborhoods
Psychometrics
Public housing
Quantitative psychology
Residence Characteristics
Safety
Sexual Behavior - statistics & numerical data
Sexual harassment
Surveys and Questionnaires
Urban Population - statistics & numerical data
Vulnerability
Young Adult
Youth
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Summary:In this article, we present the results of our efforts to develop and test a scale to operationalize and measure a neighborhood-level indicator of coercive sexual environments (CSEs), a construct emerging from our earlier work on safety and sexual threats among young girls living in chronically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Data for this study come from a survey of 124 adult and 79 youth respondents living in public housing in Washington, D.C., and participating in the Housing Opportunities and Services Together Demonstration, a multisite project testing the feasibility and effectiveness of place-based, dual-generation case management models to improve outcomes for vulnerable families. Our psychometric analysis indicates that the CSE scales we developed for adults and youth have high internal consistency. Together with our analyses of construct validity, the present findings suggest that CSE is a unitary construct that may be an important factor to include in models of neighborhood processes and risk.
ISSN:0886-2605
1552-6518
DOI:10.1177/0886260516639581