Courtney Ahrens

Biographic Data

ID8994922
NAMECourtney Ahrens
GIVEN NAMESCourtney
FAMILY NAMEAhrens
SIGNATUREAHRENS C
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia State University Long Beach, CA, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Socialization of Gender Public Regard: Family Conversations, Practices and Routines

    Open AccessMay Ling Halim, Brenda C Gutiérrez et al.ARTICLESex Roles2025References: 15

  • EHealth for Sexual Assault: A Systematic Scoping Review

    Open AccessMaria Hardeberg Bach, Courtney E Ahrens et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2024

    Providing efficient psychosocial support for survivors of sexual assault is of critical societal importance. Around the globe, technology-based solutions (eHealth) are increasingly being used to accomplish this task, especially following COVID-19. Despite increased importance and reliance on eHealth for sexual assault, minimal efforts have been made to systematically synthesize research in this area. The present study therefore sought to synthesi…

  • Hope Shattered: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Survivors’ Experiences With Untested Rape Kits

    Open AccessMaria Hardeberg Bach, Courtney E Ahrens et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2022Cited by: 1References: 8

    Rape survivors who submit to a medical forensic exam generally expect the resulting rape kit to be tested, but hundreds of thousands of rape kits have been left untested in police storage facilities nationwide. The current study sought to understand what the experience of having an untested rape kit was like for survivors. Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, this study examined narratives of 15 survivors whose rape kits had been part of…

  • Patterns of Surveillance, Control, and Abuse Among a Diverse Sample of Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors

    Open AccessChristina M Dardis, Courtney E Ahrens et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2020Cited by: 1References: 23

    Using a mixed-methods design, the present study examined intimate partner surveillance among a diverse sample of intimate partner abuse (IPA) survivors ( n = 246), including women of Mexican ( n = 83), Korean ( n = 50), Vietnamese ( n = 49), and European descent ( n = 64). Most survivors (57%) described surveillance in either survey or interview; inductive thematic analysis revealed seven forms of surveillance. Finally, two-step cluster analysis …

  • Measuring Interference With Employment and Education Reported by Women With Abusive Partners: Preliminary Data

    Stephanie Riger, Courtney E Ahrens et al.ARTICLEViolence and Victims2000

    This study examines the reliability and convergent validity of the Work/School Abuse Scale (W/SAS), a measure of the ways that abusive men interfere with women’s participation in education and employment. Results indicate good reliability as measured by coefficient alpha and significant correlations with both a revised version of the Conflict Tactics Scale and the Psychological Abuse Index. The W/SAS is a useful measure of the ways in which physi…