Developmental Trauma Inventory (Collings, Valjee, & Penning. 2013)
- Populations: South African Adolescents
- Age ranges: Range not reported; M (SD) = 15.43 (1.78)
- Languages: English
- Countries: South Africa
Items
Subscales:
- Emotional Abuse (5)
- Community Assualt (6)
- Dommestic Assault (4)
- Poverty (3)
- Witness Domestic Violence (3)
- Witness Community Violence (3)
- Indecent Assault (4)
- Domestic neglect (4)
- Rape (2)
- Domestic Injury (2)
Emotional Abuse
- My caretakers treated me in ways that made me feel ashamed
- I felt unloved at home
- Hurtful things were said to me by my caretakers
- In my caretaker’s eyes nothing I said was good enough
- People in my family calleed me insulting names
Indecent Assault
- Someone touched my sex organs when I did not want them to
- Someone made you touch their sex organs when you did not want to
- Someone kissing or touching you in a sexual way
- Someone making you touch them in a sexual way
Rape
- Unwanted Anal Sex
- Unwanted Genital Sex
Responses:
All cognitive appraisals/adaptations were scored on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 5 (extremely).
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Steven J Collings, Sachet R Valjee & Susan L Penning (2013) Development and preliminary validation of a screen for interpersonal childhood trauma experiences among school-going youth in Durban, South Africa, Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 25:1,
23-34, DOI: 10.2989/17280583.2012.722552
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Green: Convergent validity
- Green: 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
