Preliminary Development of a Measure to Assess Children's Trauma Attributions
Titel:
Preliminary Development of a Measure to Assess Children's Trauma Attributions
Auteur:
Knight, Laura A. Sullivan, Maureen A.
Verschenen in:
Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma
Paginering:
Jaargang 13 (2006) nr. 2 pagina's 65-78
Jaar:
2006-09-22
Inhoud:
The Trauma Attribution Checklist (TAC) is a brief self-report measure of children's trauma-related attributions. A preliminary study with school-aged children, 12 months after exposure to a series of tornadoes, demonstrated significant correlations between TAC items and the Reaction Index, a measure of posttraumatic distress. Children with higher posttraumatic distress scores made more attributions of responsibility for negative tornado-related events, were more concerned with making attributions, had higher expectations of a tornado recurrence, and were more hypervigilant than children with less severe symptoms. Regression analyses indicated that items addressing expectations of recurrence and hypervigilance explained 53.3% of the variance in posttraumatic distress, with having made an attribution of responsibility for a tornado-related event accounting for an additional 5.6% of the variance.
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