Quantitative proxies for social norms: Interrogating clustering, reference groups, and validity
In order to quantitatively study the relationship between social norms and intimate partner violence (IPV), a growing number of researchers employ aggregate measures of attitudes or behaviours to serve as proxy measures for descriptive or injunctive norms. However, recent research suggests there is a lack of consistency in how these measures are constructed and interrogated to ensure they are valid representations of a construct that is under normative influence. This study demonstrates techniques researchers can use to explore and proxy for social norms in quantitative data and to identify the relative appropriateness of different normative reference groups available within the data.
This event will be relevant to anyone interested in social norms measurement, and prevention of intimate partner violence.
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Ilana Seff is a Staff Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis and is finishing her doctorate in public health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Her research focuses on violence prevention in humanitarian settings and social norms around intimate partner violence and gender inequity.
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