Development and Validation of a Unidimensional Maltreatment Scale in the Add Health Data Set

作者：Marszalek Jacob M^*; Hamilton Jessica L

来源：Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2012, 45(1): 3-17.

DOI：10.1177/0748175611421612

• maltreatment
• adolescence
• confirmatory factor analysis
• convergent evidence validity
• scale development

Four maltreatment items were examined from Wave III (N = 13,516) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Item analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, cross-validation, reliability estimates, and convergent validity coefficients strongly supported the validity of using the four items as a unidimensional composite. Implications for education and practice are discussed.

• 出版日期2012-1