Factor structure and internal consistency of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool Parent Version (ICAST-P) in a cross-country pooled data set in nine Balkan countries

Meinck, Franziska; Murray, Aja Louise; Dunne, Michael P.; Schmidt, Péter; Nikolaidis, George

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105007

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“…For example, bifactor models of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire have also revealed a dominant general maltreatment factor and weaker specific factors (Spinhoven et al, 2014;Stagaki et al, 2022). Similar results were found in recent applications of a bifactor model to the International Child Abuse Screening Tool (Meinck et al, 2021) and the Adverse Childhood Experience questionnaire (Dobson, McLarnon, Pandya, & Pusch, 2021). Together, these and our current results underscore a challenge in investigating the consequences of childhood maltreatment: when maltreatment experiences tend to co-occur, it is difficult to measure the effects of a particular type of adversity unique from overall maltreatment.…”

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Confirmatory factor analysis of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale: Evidence for essential unidimensionality

Zorowitz

Tuominen²

2022

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The Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale is a retrospective self-report scale that measures 10 distinct types of childhood maltreatment. Despite its increasing use, the factor structure of the MACE has not been thoroughly investigated. As such, the viability of the MACE total and subscale scores are uncertain. The current study investigated the factor structure of the MACE in order to quantify the reliability of its total and subscale scores. Two independent samples of participants (N=1051 & N=582) who completed the MACE were included in this study. Using confirmatory item response models, we tested one-factor and several bifactor models of participants’ responses. We used model-based indices to estimate the reliability of the MACE total and subscale scores, and to quantify the essential unidimensionality of the scale. We found the MACE total score was a reliable and valid measure of overall childhood maltreatment. In contrast, although we found MACE subscale scores exhibited adequate reliability, the vast majority of their reliable variance reflected general maltreatment and not any particular type of maltreatment as intended. We also found that the MACE is essentially unidimensional and some of its items exhibit differential item functioning by gender. Our results provide support for a one-factor structure of the MACE, as well as continued use of the MACE total score. Our results caution against the use of MACE subscale scores, which have little practical use insofar that they provide little unique, reliable information above and beyond the total score.

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confidence: 87%

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale: Evidence for essential unidimensionality

Zorowitz

Tuominen²

2022

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“…Thus, we believe it is important for studies of family-level resilience to include measures across all of the 3S resilience dimensions and to model their shared and unique protective (and promotive) effects on development. As one methodological guide, in the ELA literature, latent variable approaches such as bifactor modeling have allowed researchers to account for the co-occurrence and overlap between types of ELA while modeling common and unique factors (e.g., Briggs-Gowan et al, 2019; Lombera et al, 2021; Meinck et al, 2021). Similar approaches may prove useful in resilience science in order to better chronicle the shared and distinct resilience-promoting effects of sensitivity, stimulation, and stability.…”

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Toward a dimensional model of family-based resilience: Sensitivity, stimulation, and stability as moderators of early-life adversity.

Martini¹,

Li²,

Wright³

et al. 2022

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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Public Significance StatementUnderstanding the factors that foster resilience among children exposed to adversity is a pressing public health challenge. This article proposes a dimensional model of family-level sources of resilience, including sensitivity, stimulation, and stability, that allow children to adapt when confronted with risk. Through a review of the literature, this article concludes that these family-based resilience factors confer protection against experiences of general psychosocial risk and severe adversity, and thus underscore possible targets for prevention and early intervention.

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“…The ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tools Parents Version (ICAST-P) is a self-report screening tool developed by Runyan et al ( 49 ) that has been used to measure child maltreatment across nations and cultures ( 50 ). Chen et al ( 51 ) translated and validated the ICAST-P to the Chinese cultural context, and the Chinese version of the ICAST-P has 40 items and acceptable reliability and validity.…”

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The relationship between parental depression and child internalizing and externalizing problems: The roles of parenting stress and child maltreatment

Chen

2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionAlthough the relationships between parental mental health and child internalizing and externalizing problems have been explored by previous studies, the pathways between these two variables need further exploration. The present study aims to explore the relationships between parental depression and child internalizing and externalizing problems and to examine the roles of parenting stress and child maltreatment in those relationships within the Chinese cultural context.MethodData were collected from 855 Chinese families with preschool-aged children, and mediation analysis was used to examine the pathways between these variables.ResultsThe results show that parental depression is positively associated with child internalizing and externalizing problems, and child maltreatment and the combination of parenting stress and child maltreatment mediated the relationships between parental depression and child internalizing and externalizing problems, respectively. These findings suggest that parental depression not only has a direct effect on child internalizing and externalizing problems but also has an indirect effect via parenting stress and child maltreatment.DiscussionDecreasing the levels of parenting stress and child maltreatment should be applied in interventions to break the relationships between parental depression and child internalizing and externalizing problems within the Chinese cultural context.

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Factor structure and internal consistency of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool Parent Version (ICAST-P) in a cross-country pooled data set in nine Balkan countries

Cited by 9 publications

References 37 publications

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale: Evidence for essential unidimensionality

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale: Evidence for essential unidimensionality

Toward a dimensional model of family-based resilience: Sensitivity, stimulation, and stability as moderators of early-life adversity.

The relationship between parental depression and child internalizing and externalizing problems: The roles of parenting stress and child maltreatment

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