TY - JOUR
T1 - Re-Evaluating Sexual Violence Prevention Through Bystander Education
T2 - A Latent Growth Curve Approach
AU - Shaw, Jessica
AU - Janulis, Patrick Francis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - Recently, there has been a call for more advanced analytic techniques in violence against women research, particularly in community interventions that use longitudinal designs. The current study re-evaluates experimental evaluation data from a sexual violence bystander intervention program. Using an exploratory latent growth curve approach, we were able to model the longitudinal growth trajectories of individual participants over the course of the entire study. Although the results largely confirm the original evaluation findings, the latent growth curve approach better fits the demands of “messy” data (e.g., missing data, varying number of time points per participant, and unequal time spacing within and between participants) that are frequently obtained during a community-based intervention. The benefits of modern statistical techniques to practitioners and researchers in the field of sexual violence prevention, and violence against women more generally, are further discussed.
AB - Recently, there has been a call for more advanced analytic techniques in violence against women research, particularly in community interventions that use longitudinal designs. The current study re-evaluates experimental evaluation data from a sexual violence bystander intervention program. Using an exploratory latent growth curve approach, we were able to model the longitudinal growth trajectories of individual participants over the course of the entire study. Although the results largely confirm the original evaluation findings, the latent growth curve approach better fits the demands of “messy” data (e.g., missing data, varying number of time points per participant, and unequal time spacing within and between participants) that are frequently obtained during a community-based intervention. The benefits of modern statistical techniques to practitioners and researchers in the field of sexual violence prevention, and violence against women more generally, are further discussed.
KW - experimental evaluation
KW - interventions
KW - latent growth curve analysis
KW - longitudinal design
KW - rape prevention
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U2 - 10.1177/0886260515580365
DO - 10.1177/0886260515580365
M3 - Article
C2 - 25888503
AN - SCOPUS:84983751569
SN - 0886-2605
VL - 31
SP - 2729
EP - 2750
JO - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
JF - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
IS - 16
ER -