Training students to respond to shootings on campus: Is it worth it?
Abstract
Public safety departments have been tasked with training staff, faculty, and students to respond to an active shooting event if it were to occur on campus. There has been an increase in student training videos and drills on college campuses, even though the impact of these programs has not been evaluated. This study takes an initial look at a training video designed to prepare students to respond to a shooter on campus, comparing it with a control video about school shootings. Students who watched either video felt more afraid that a shooting would occur on campus, in addition to feeling more prepared to respond. The training video increased feelings of preparedness over the control video, but also increased feelings of fear among female students. The implications of active shooter training on student mental health and school culture are discussed.
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Some scholars have used lab-based experimental study to expose students to recordings of a simulated incident on campus and then measure change in their psychological response.
“some scholars have used lab-based experimental study to expose students to recordings of a simulated incident on campus, and then measure change in their psychological response (Peterson et al., 2015).”
From Impacts of school shooter drills on the psychological well-being of American K-12 school communities: a social media study (2021) · cites this paper as Peterson et al., 2015
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- Authors
- Peterson, J., Sackrison, E., & Polland, A.
- Affiliations
- Hamline University (US)
- Metropolitan State University (US)
- Loyola University Chicago (US)
- ORCID
- Peterson, Jillian
- Venue
- Journal of Threat Assessment and Management
- Published
- 2015-06
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 127-138
- ISSN
- 2169-4842 (ISSN-L)
- 2169-4850
- OpenAlex
- W2337635688
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 0.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Threat Assessment and Management (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Education, Safety, and Science Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Keywords
- active shooter response, student readiness, gender differences in fear, student mental health, school culture, university students
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