The Child Life Challenges Scale (CLCS): Associations of a Single-Item Rating of Global Child Adversity with Children’s Total Life Stressors and Parents’ Childhood Adversity

The Child Life Challenges Scale (CLCS): Associations of a Single-Item Rating of Global Child Adversity with Children’s Total Life Stressors and Parents’ Childhood Adversity

Background: Although many existing measures tabulate specific risk factors to yield cumulative risk indices, there is a need for low-burden strategies to estimate general adversity exposure. Aims and Methods: This study introduces a brief, new measure of lifetime adversity, the Child Life Challenges...

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Main Authors: Jillian S. Merrick, Madelyn H. Labella, Angela J. Narayan, Christopher D. Desjardins, Andrew J. Barnes, Ann S. Masten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Children
Subjects:
childhood adversity
homelessness
measurement
psychological distress
stressful life events
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/7/4/33

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