Children’s Impact of Traumatic Events Scale - Revised, Eroticism (Crouch et al., 1999)
- Populations: Sexually Abused Youth
- Age ranges: 8-17
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Items not reported, no examples given. Item count:
CITES-R Eroticism Scale: 4
Scoring
CITES-R Eroticism Scale:
- High scores reflect increased frequency of respondent experience of sexual feelings.
Citations
- Crouch, J., Smith, D., Ezzell, C., & Saunders, B. (1990). Measuring Reactions to Sexual Trauma Among Children: Comparing the Children’s Impact of Traumatic Events Scale and the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children. Child Maltreatment, 4(3), 255-263.
- Wolfe, V. V., Gentile, C., Michienzi, T., Sas, L., & Wolfe, D. A. (1991). Children’s Impact of Traumatic Events Scale: A measure of post-sexual-abuse PTSD symptoms. Behavioral Assessment, 13, 359–383.
Team comments
Developed in a group of 4 measurement instruments:
CITES-R PTSD
CITES-R Social Reactions Scale
CITES-R Attributions Scale
CITES-R Eroticism
(Crouch et al., 1999)
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Green: Convergent validity
- Unknown: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: Internal consistency
- Unknown: Test-retest
Ease of use
- Unknown: Readability
Definitions
Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.
Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.
Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.
Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.
Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).
Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.
Key
- Green: Meets validation criteria
- Red: Does not meet validation criteria
- Unknown: Evidence not available
