Factorial validity of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire in Italian psychiatric patients
| Autor: | Marco Innamorati, Paolo Girardi, David Lester, Paola Venturini, Federica Ricci, Francesca Fagioli, Mario Amore, Denise Erbuto, Maurizio Pompili |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject Poison control medicine (all) psychiatry and mental health biological psychiatry Neglect Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cronbach's alpha Surveys and Questionnaires Injury prevention medicine Humans Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry Aged media_common Aged 80 and over Mental Disorders Medicine (all) Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged Exploratory factor analysis 030227 psychiatry Adult Survivors of Child Adverse Events Italy Sexual abuse Psychiatry and Mental Health Female Biological psychiatry Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Psychopathology Clinical psychology |
| Popis: | Early adverse experiences are associated with neurobiological changes and these may underlie the increased risk of psychopathology. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF) is the most commonly used instrument for assessing childhood maltreatment. Thus, the aim of our study was to investigate the factorial validity of an Italian version of the CTQ-SF in a sample of psychiatric inpatients by means of confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses. The sample was composed of 471 psychiatric in-patients and out-patients (206 males and 265 females) aged 16-80 years (mean age=34.4 years [SD=16.3]) consecutively admitted to two psychiatric departments. All patients were administered the Italian version of the CTQ-SF. We tested five different factor models which lacked good fit, while the exploratory factor analysis supported the adequacy of a solution with three factors (Emotional Neglect/Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Physical Neglect/Abuse). The three factors had satisfactory internal consistency (ordinal Cronbach alphas >0.90). Our study supports results from previous research indicating the lack of structural invariance of the CTQ-SF in cross-cultural adaptations of the test, and the fact that, when measuring different types of childhood maltreatment, the difference between abuse and neglect may be not valid. |
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