TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Factorial validity of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire in Italian psychiatric patients
JO  - Psychiatry research
A1  - Innamorati, Marco
A1  - Erbuto, Denise
A1  - Venturini, Paola
A1  - Fagioli, Francesca
A1  - Ricci, Federica
A1  - Lester, David
A1  - Amore, Mario
A1  - Girardi, Paolo
A1  - Pompili, Maurizio
SP  - 297
EP  - 302
VL  - 245
IS  - 
N2  - Early adverse experiences are associated with neurobiological changes and these may underlie the increased risk of psychopathology. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF) is the most commonly used instrument for assessing childhood maltreatment. Thus, the aim of our study was to investigate the factorial validity of an Italian version of the CTQ-SF in a sample of psychiatric inpatients by means of confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses. The sample was composed of 471 psychiatric in-patients and out-patients (206 males and 265 females) aged 16-80 years (mean age=34.4 years [SD=16.3]) consecutively admitted to two psychiatric departments. All patients were administered the Italian version of the CTQ-SF. We tested five different factor models which lacked good fit, while the exploratory factor analysis supported the adequacy of a solution with three factors (Emotional Neglect/Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Physical Neglect/Abuse). The three factors had satisfactory internal consistency (ordinal Cronbach alphas >0.90). Our study supports results from previous research indicating the lack of structural invariance of the CTQ-SF in cross-cultural adaptations of the test, and the fact that, when measuring different types of childhood maltreatment, the difference between abuse and neglect may be not valid.<br><br>Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0165-1781
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.08.044
ID  - ref1
ER  -