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Adult recall of childhood psychological maltreatment: Definitional strategies and challenges

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  • Baker, Amy J.L.

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This review paper was undertaken to compare legal definitions, conceptual definitions, and existing survey instruments of adult recall of childhood psychological maltreatment and to identify definitional challenges that remain. Fifteen measures were compared in order to determine whether the items on the measures captured all of the core constituent components of psychological abuse. Five key issues were identified for the field including, (1) lack of consistency in the term itself, (2) lack of consistency between legal and conceptual definitions, (3) lack of consistency between conceptual and operational definitions, (4) lack of clarity as to the role of witnessing domestic violence, and (5) lack of consistency in psychometric characteristics of the measures. Taken together these issues interfere with the ability of researchers to integrate findings across studies and to move the field forward. Suggestions for systematically addressing these issues are offered.

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  • Baker, Amy J.L., 2009. "Adult recall of childhood psychological maltreatment: Definitional strategies and challenges," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(7), pages 703-714, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:31:y:2009:i:7:p:703-714
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    1. Lee, Yoona & Malley-Morrison, Kathleen & Jang, Mikyung & Watson, Malcolm W., 2014. "Hierarchies of child maltreatment types at different perceived severity levels in European Americans, Korean Americans, and Koreans," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 220-229.
    2. Anikó Ujhelyi Nagy & Ildikó Kuritár Szabó & Endre Hann & Karolina Kósa, 2019. "Measuring the Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences by Survey Research Methods," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-17, March.
    3. Baker, Amy J.L. & Maiorino, Elizabeth, 2010. "Assessments of emotional abuse and neglect with the CTQ: Issues and estimates," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 32(5), pages 740-748, May.
    4. Sunday B. Fakunmoju & Funmi O. Bammeke, 2013. "Development of Perception of Child Maltreatment Scale," SAGE Open, , vol. 3(2), pages 21582440134, May.
    5. Baker, Amy J.L. & Festinger, Trudy, 2011. "Emotional abuse and emotional neglect subscales of the CTQ: Associations with each other, other measures of psychological maltreatment, and demographic variables," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 33(11), pages 2297-2302.
    6. Arruabarrena, Ignacia & De Paúl, Joaquín, 2012. "Improving accuracy and consistency in child maltreatment severity assessment in child protection services in Spain: New set of criteria to help caseworkers in substantiation decisions," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 34(4), pages 666-674.
    7. English, Diana & Thompson, Richard & White, Catherine Roller & Wilson, Dee, 2015. "Why should child welfare pay more attention to emotional maltreatment?," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 53-63.

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