Retrospective Assessment of Childhood Sexual and Physical Abuse: A Comparison of Scaled and Behaviorally Specific Approaches

Autor/inn/en	DiLillo, David; Fortier, Michelle A.; Hayes, Sarah A.; Trask, Emily; Perry, Andrea R.; Messman-Moore, Terri; Fauchier, Angele; Nash, Cindy
Titel	Retrospective Assessment of Childhood Sexual and Physical Abuse: A Comparison of Scaled and Behaviorally Specific Approaches
Quelle	In: Assessment, 13 (2006) 3, S.297-312 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1073-1911
DOI	10.1177/1073191106288391
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Factor Analysis; Victims of Crime; Behavior; Child Abuse; Sexual Abuse; Comparative Analysis; Questionnaires; Likert Scales; Computer Assisted Testing; Measurement Techniques; Test Validity; Test Reliability; Response Style (Tests); Social Desirability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Faktorenanalyse; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Sexueller Missbrauch; Fragebogen; Likert-Skala; Messtechnik; Testvalidität; Testreliabilität; Antwortverhalten; Soziales Bedürfnis
Abstract	This study compared retrospective reports of childhood sexual and physical abuse as assessed by two measures: the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), which uses a Likert-type scaling approach, and the Computer Assisted Maltreatment Inventory (CAMI), which employs a behaviorally specific means of assessment. Participants included 1,195 undergraduate students recruited from three geographically diverse universities. Agreement was high across the two measures in the classification of victim status (92% and 80% for sexual and physical abuse, respectively). However, the CTQ classified more participants as sexually abused than did the CAMI, whereas the opposite trend was found for physical abuse. For child physical abuse, many participants reporting abusive acts on the CAMI scored below the cut-point for physical abuse on the CTQ. Classification differences for both types of abuse were largely unrelated to demographic factors, socially desirable responding, or self-reported withholding of information. The implications of these results are discussed in light of future research using retrospective methods of assessing childhood abuse. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10