Citation

Ball B, Tharp AT, Noonan RK, Valle LA, Hamburger ME, Rosenbluth B. Violence Against Women 2012; 18(7): 746-762.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801212455188

PMID

22872708

Abstract

Expect Respect support groups, a selective prevention strategy, are designed to prevent and reduce dating violence among at-risk middle and high school students. This preliminary, uncontrolled evaluation examined changes in healthy relationship skills and emotionally and physically abusive behaviors in participants' peer and dating relationships. Self-reports (N = 144) showed significant increases in healthy relationship skills from baseline to program completion, whereas levels of victimization and perpetration remained unchanged. A subgroup of students who reported baseline levels of victimization and perpetration with means at least one standard deviation above the group mean reported significantly less victimization and perpetration at program completion.

Language: en