Validation of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire - Short Form (CTQ-SF) for a French-Speaking Sample.

ABSTRACT: The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) is a widely used and standardized questionnaire designed to assess five types of childhood abuse. Despite the fact that the CTQ-SF demonstrates good validity and reliability, its internal structure presents some limitations and its original 28-item five-factor model has been contested. The present study assesses the reliability and the factor structure of a French version of the CTQ-SF for an alternative 25-item model and a bifactorial model, using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Participants were French-speaking females from two independent samples (N = 1903, N = 690). They completed an online sociodemographic questionnaire and the online version of the CTQ-SF. The new model proposed in this article demonstrated exce

SUBMITTER: Delhalle M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413264 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature