Adverse Childhood Experiences Abuse Short Form (Meinck et al., 2017)

• Populations: 15 year olds in Romania
• Age ranges: 15
• Countries: Romania

Items

Subscales:

• Emotional Abuse
• Physical Abuse
• Sexual Abuse

Emotional Abuse Subscale

• Did a parent, guardian or other household member yell, scream or swear at you, insult or humiliate you?
• Did a parent, guardian or other household member threaten to, or actually, abandon you or throw you out of the house?

Physical Abuse Subscale

• Did a parent, guardian or other household member spank, slap, kick, punch, or beat you up?
• Did a parent, guardian or other household member hit or cut you with an object, such as a stick (or cane), bottle, club, knife, whip, etc?

Sexual Abuse Subscale

• Did Someone touch or fondle you in a sexual way when you did not want them to?
• Did someone make you touch their body in a sexual way when you did not want them to?
• Did someone attempt oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse with you when you did not want them to?
• Did someone actually have oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse with you when you did not want them to?

Response options:

• I refuse to answer
• Never
• Once
• A few times
• Many times

Scoring

not reported

Citations

Meinck, F., Cosma, A. P., Mikton, C., & Baban, A. (2017). Psychometric properties of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Abuse Short Form (ACE-ASF) among Romanian high school students. Child Abuse & Neglect, 72, 326–337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.08.016