Beyond Guns, Drugs and Gangs: The Structure of Student Perceptions of School Safety

Autor/inn/en	Skiba, Russell; Simmons, Ada B.; Peterson, Reece; McKelvey, Janet; Forde, Susan; Gallini, Sarah
Titel	Beyond Guns, Drugs and Gangs: The Structure of Student Perceptions of School Safety
Quelle	In: Journal of School Violence, 3 (2004) 2-3, S.149-171 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1538-8220
Schlagwörter	Violence; School Safety; Construct Validity; School Surveys; Factor Analysis; Student Attitudes; Prevention; Educational Environment; Correlation; Test Items; Test Construction; Attitude Measures; Crime; Behavior Problems; Interpersonal Relationship; Delinquency; Student Participation; Measurement Techniques; Evaluation Methods; High School Students; Middle School Students; Junior High School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gewalt; Faktorenanalyse; Schülerverhalten; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Korrelation; Test content; Testaufgabe; Testaufbau; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Kriminalität; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Messtechnik; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Middle school; Middle schools; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Junior High Schools; Sekundarstufe I
Abstract	The failure to consider factors that make a key contribution to violence and its prevention may create serious problems of construct validity for school violence surveys. Further, few studies have assessed the relative importance of variables contributing to perceptions of safety by examining correlations between survey items and overall feelings of school safety. This study describes the development of a self-report survey, the "Safe and Responsive Schools Safe School Survey", explicitly designed to assess perceptions regarding criminal violation and serious violence as well as day-to-day disruption and climate issues. Principal components analysis identified four factors involving student connectedness, incivility, feelings of personal safety, and delinquency/major safety. Further multivariate analysis suggests that, in at least some cases, feelings about connectedness and climate may be more critical than serious violence in shaping student perceptions of school safety. (Contains 1 note, 4 tables, and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10