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Marsh, Shawn C.; Evans, William P. – Journal of School Violence, 2007
Eighth and tenth grade students (n= 1,619) reported on exposure to risk and protective assets in their day-to-day lives. The relationship between carrying a weapon to school and risk and protective factors in the home and school ecological domains was explored through logistic regression conducted separately by gender. Environmental control in the…
Descriptors: Weapons, School Safety, Violence, Prevention
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Christiansen, Elizabeth J.; Evans, William P. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2005
The present study examined how risk and protective factors were associated with adolescent victimization by testing four competing models from resiliency research - the compensatory, risk-protective, protective-protective, and challenge models. Models were tested separately by gender. The data for this study were based on a multistate project that…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Risk, Rural Schools, Locus of Control
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Evans, William P.; Fitzgerald, Carla; Weigel, Dan; Chvilicek, Sarah – Youth & Society, 1999
Investigated factors associated with gang involvement among rural and urban adolescents using data from a sample of 1,183 Nevada students in grades 7 through 12. There was no significant difference in gang membership or pressure to join gangs between the rural and urban samples, but there were differences on other gang and violence indicators.…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Group Membership, High School Students, Junior High School Students