In response to the concern with and severity of school violence and the limited research on teachers’responses to these events, the Teachers’Reactions to School Violence Scale (TRSV) was developed. The TRSV is a self-report scale with 35 items measuring teachers’ reactions in relation to an incident of school violence. The convenience sample consisted of 143 middle and high school teachers. A principal components analysis yielded six components: Intrusion, Perceived Safety With Students, Avoidance of Students/Situations, Trust of Students, Environmental Safety, and Feelings of Relief. The six components accounted for 67% of the total variance, and subscale reliabilities ranged from .60 to .95. Convergent and discriminant validity was assessed through validation of the TRSV against the Impact of Events Scale. In addition, a comparison of teachers in perceived high-violence schools with teachers in perceived low-violence schools was used to examine criterion-related validity.
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