Physical violence expression in female community college students: a quantitative survey study

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Rochester. Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, 2016.This dissertation aimed to understand the motivations and perceptions of women in a two-year community college in relation to their own perpetration of physical aggression. The study focused on full-time women attending a Northeastern Community College in the spring 2016 semester. The study used a quantitative online survey to examine the experiences physical violence of full-time, female students at the selected community college. The survey questions were informed by current research and empirical findings regarding women’s anger expression. While there was a preponderance of literature that discussed anger expression of females at four-year institutions, similar information for female students at community colleges was almost non-existent. Understanding female student violence and the developmental factors that influence it are an important vehicle for assessing institutional support systems adequacies and/or deficiencies. The lack of data hinders college administrators from making informed decisions; hence, studies such as this one are imperative for providing necessary information to professionals and college administrators within higher education