The Youth and Childhood Adversity Scale: a step towards developing a new measure of adversity and its severity

Background: Early adversity (EA) can contribute to the onset, manifestation, and course of various mental disorders. Measuring EA is still conceptually and psychometrically challenging due to issues such as content coverage, item-wording, scaling methods, and validation procedures. Further, despite...

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Main Authors: Pascal Schlechter, Jessica Fritz, Matthew Cassels, Sharon A.S. Neufeld, Paul O. Wilkinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-01-01
Series:European Journal of Psychotraumatology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2021.1981573