title: College Campus Community Readiness to Address Intimate Partner Violence Among LGBTQ+ Young Adults: A Conceptual and Empirical Examination.
abstract: This paper provides an overview of a conceptual model that integrates theories of social ecology, minority stress, and community readiness to better understand risk for and outcomes of intimate partner violence (IPV) among LGBTQ+ college students. Additionally, online survey data was collected from a sample of 202 LGBTQ+ students enrolled in 119 colleges across the United States to provide preliminary data on some aspects of the proposed model. Results suggested that students generally thought their campuses were low in readiness to address IPV; that is, students felt that their campuses could do more to address IPV and provide IPV services specific to LGBTQ+ college students. Perceptions of greater campus readiness to address IPV among LGBTQ+ college students was significantly and positively related to a more favorable LGBTQ+ campus climate and a greater sense of campus community. Additionally, IPV victims were more likely to perceive higher levels of campus community readiness than non-IPV victims. There was no association between IPV perpetration and perceptions of campus community readiness. Greater sense of community was marginally and inversely related to IPV victimization and perpetration. Sense of community and LGBTQ+ campus climate also varied to some extent as a function of region of the country and type of institution. Implications for further development and refinement of the conceptual model, as well as future research applying this model to better understand IPV among sexual minority students are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA. katie.edwards@unh.edu.
authors.forename: Katie M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Heather L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Littleton
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.
authors.forename: Kateryna M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Sylaska
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Annie L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Crossman
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Work, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.
authors.forename: Meghan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Craig
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D062309:Community Integration; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology; D036262:Empirical Research; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012574:Schools; D000072339:Sexual and Gender Minorities / Q000523:psychology*; D012925:Social Conformity; D066252:Sociological Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: College; Community readiness; Dating violence; Intimate partner violence; LGBT; Minority stress; Same sex; Sexual minority