Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada ; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada ; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2013 Apr 9;4. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v4i0.20232. Print 2013.
Current psychometric measures of childhood trauma history generally fail to assess the relational-socioecological context within which childhood maltreatment occurs, including the relationship of abusers to abused persons, the emotional availability of caregivers, and the respondent's own thoughts, feelings, and actions in response to maltreatment.
To evaluate a computerized approach to measuring the relational-socioecological context within which childhood maltreatment occurs.
The psychometric properties of a Childhood Attachment and Relational Trauma Screen (CARTS) were evaluated as a retrospective survey of childhood maltreatment history designed to be appropriate for completion by adults. Participants were undergraduates (n=222), an internet sample (n=123), and psychiatric outpatients (n=30).
The internal reliability, convergent, and concurrent validity of the CARTS were supported across samples. Paired differences in means and correlations between rated item-descriptiveness to self, mothers, and fathers also accorded with findings of prior attachment and maltreatment research, illustrating the utility of assessing the occurrence and effects of maltreatment within a relational-socioecological framework.
Results preliminarily support a new survey methodology for assessing childhood maltreatment within a relational-socioecological framework. Further psychometric evaluation of the CARTS is warranted.
目前，用于评估儿童创伤史的心理计量学方法通常无法评估虐待儿童发生的关系-社会生态环境，包括施虐者与受虐者之间的关系、照顾者的情感可用性以及受虐者对虐待的自身想法、感受和行为。
评估一种用于评估儿童虐待发生的关系-社会生态环境的计算机化方法。
评估了儿童依恋和关系创伤筛查（CARTS）的心理计量学特性，该筛查是作为一种回顾性的儿童虐待史调查设计的，旨在适合成年人完成。参与者包括本科生（n=222）、互联网样本（n=123）和精神科门诊患者（n=30）。
在不同样本中，CARTS 的内部可靠性、聚合效度和同时效度均得到支持。对自我、母亲和父亲的评定项目描述性与评定分数之间的配对差异以及相关性也符合先前的依恋和虐待研究结果，说明了在关系-社会生态框架内评估虐待的发生和影响的实用性。
结果初步支持了一种用于评估关系-社会生态框架内儿童虐待的新调查方法。需要进一步对 CARTS 进行心理计量学评估。
