Development and validation of a retrospective self-report measure of childhood neglect.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several measures are available to assess childhood physical and sexual abuse, but few measures focus specifically on neglect and little psychometric research on measures exists. This paper aims to fill a gap in the field by describing a new instrument to measure childhood neglect retrospectively and providing information about construct, predictive, and discriminant validity using adults with documented histories of childhood neglect.

Methods

Data are from a large prospective, longitudinal study of abused and neglected children and matched controls followed up and assessed in adulthood. The current sample (N =717) includes 370 individuals with histories of childhood neglect and 347 demographically matched controls without those histories. Self-reports of childhood

SUBMITTER: Carmel T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7379160 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature