General Information

The Children's Report of Exposure to Violence (CREV) assesses children's exposure to violence through four modes: Media (television or film), Reported (people's reports of occurrence), Witnessed (directly witnessed), and Victim (direct experience). The CREV includes three categories of victims: Self, Strangers, and Familiar persons. This report consists of 29 items and is self-administered.

Number of Versions:	1
Version:	Children's Report of Exposure to Violence
Author(s):	Michele R. Cooley, Samuel M. Turner, & Deborah C. Beidel
Date of Publication:	1995
Material(s) Needed for Test:	Instrument
Manual:	Not Available
Time to Administer:	20 minutes
Charge for one form or kit:	No

Purpose and Nature of Test

Construct(s) Measured:	Community Violence
Population for which designed:	Age Range: 9 through 18 years old Grade Level: Fourth Grade to High School Senior
Method of Administration:	Group and Individual
Source of Information:	Self
Subtests and Scores:	Direct Exposure and Media Exposure
Number of Items:	29
Type of Scale:	Likert

Technical Evaluation

Norms: 

Sample Size:	228
Population:	Rural/Urban - Public elementary/middle school kids.
Culture/ethnicity:	African-American, Asian-American, Caucasian, Hispanic/Latino, Native-American, Other
SES Level:	Not reported by author(s).

Reliability: 

Psychometric information:	Provided for Subscales.
The range of Test-Retest Value:	0.52 to 0.78
The range of Inter-rater reliability:	Not assessed
The range of Internal consistency:	0.75 to 0.93

Validity: 

Criterion validity data has not been presented or published in study.

Practical Evaluation

Scoring Procedure:	Manual Scoring
Examiner Qualifications and Training Required:	None
Permission Required to Use Instrument:	Yes
If yes, by whom:	Michelle Cooley-Quille

Notes

Original Reference(s):

Cooley, M. R., Turner, S. M., & Beidel, D. C. (1995). Assessing community violence: The children's report of exposure to violence. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 34 (2), 201-208.

Other Reference(s):

Cooley-Quille, M. R., Turner, S. M., & Beidel, D. C. (1995). Emotional impact of children's exposure to community violence: A preliminary study. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 34 (10), 1362-1368. Cooley-Quille, M., & Lorion, R. (1999). Adolescents' exposure to community violence: Sleep and psychophysiological functioning. Journal of Community Violence, 27 (4), 267-375.

Contact

Name:	Dr. Michelle Cooley
Organization:	Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, Department of Mental Health
Address:	Hampton House, 795
City:	Baltimore
State:	MD
Zip:	21205
Phone:	(410) 955-0413
Fax:	(410) 955-9088
E-mail:	mcooley@jhsph.edu
Website:	http://www.jhu.edu/

Last updated by Violence Institute of New Jersey:  January 2007