Reliability and Validity of the Early Trauma Inventory Self Report-Short Form among Korean Adolescents

Abstract

Objectives: Experiencing early childhood trauma is related to multiple psychiatric problems in adolescents and adulthood. This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the Early Trauma Inventory Self Report-Short Form (ETISR-SF) among Korean adolescents. Methods: A total of 86 adolescents aged 12-17 years (mean age 14.50±1.35 years, range 12-17) were assessed using the ETISR-SF. Other instruments, including the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), the revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS), and the List of Threatening Experiences Questionnaire (LTE-Q), were used to assess clinical symptoms. After 2 months, 51 of the 86 participants were evaluated using the ETISR-SF to assess test-retest reliability. Results: The Cronbach's coefficient alpha for the ETISR-SF was high (0.803). Adolescents with depressive disorder showed higher ETISR-SF scores compared to healthy controls. The ETISR-SF scores were correlated higher with the scores on the LTE-Q (r=0.485) than with the scores on the CDI or RCMAS (r=0.165 and 0.347, respectively). Conclusion: The ETISR-SF was temporally stable, showing acceptable reliability (r=0.776). These findings suggest that the Korean version of the ETISR-SF appears to be a reliable and valid instrument for the measurement of reported childhood trauma.

Trauma and Depression among North Korean Refugees: The Mediating Effect of Negative Cognition

“…Consistent with prior findings on the high prevalence of traumatic experiences in refugee populations [ 39 , 40 ], and specifically among North Korean refugees (for a review, [ 26 ]), our findings showed a high frequency of early traumatic experiences among North Korean adolescents and young adults. In comparison with healthy South Korean adolescent and adult samples from previous studies [ 29 , 41 ], young North Korean refugees in this study had a generally higher number of early traumatic events that had ever occurred (5.99 vs. 2.33–3.65). Specifically, the average number of general traumatic events and experiences of sexual abuse they had experienced (2.13, 0.36 respectively) was more than twice higher than that of Korean adolescents and adults (0.86–0.96, 0.13–0.17, respectively) and the number of instances of physical abuse and emotional abuse they had ever experienced (2.11, 1.39, respectively) also tends to be higher than that in the Korean samples (0.80–1.79, 0.54–0.74, respectively).…”

The mediating role of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in the relationship between childhood trauma and suicidality among adolescents: a structural equation model

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Effects of Adversities during Childhood on Anxiety Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: Comparison of Typically Developing Children and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Group

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