The Abuse-Related Beliefs Questionnaire for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Autor/inn/en	Ginzburg, Karni; Arnow, Bruce; Hart, Stacey; Gardner, William; Koopman, Cheryl; Classen, Catherine C.; Giese-Davis, Janine; Spiegel, David
Titel	The Abuse-Related Beliefs Questionnaire for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Quelle	In: Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 30 (2006) 8, S.929-943 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-2134
DOI	10.1016/j.chiabu.2006.01.004
Schlagwörter	Psychometrics; Psychotherapy; Females; Anxiety; Sexual Abuse; Questionnaires; Beliefs; Victims of Crime; Child Abuse; Adults; Test Reliability; Test Validity; Intervention; Check Lists; Personality Traits; Correlation; Feasibility Studies; Attitude Measures + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychometry; Psychometrie; Psychotherapie; Weibliches Geschlecht; Angst; Sexueller Missbrauch; Fragebogen; Belief; Glaube; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Testreliabilität; Testvalidität; Checkliste; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Korrelation
Abstract	Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties of a new measure, the Abuse-Related Beliefs Questionnaire (ARBQ), designed to assess abuse-related beliefs among adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Study 1 examined the structure of the scale, and Study 2 evaluated its reliability and validity. Method: One hundred and seventy female CSA survivors recruited into a group psychotherapy intervention study were administered the ARBQ in Study 1. A subsample of 45 women completed the ARBQ again 12 months later. In Study 2, 70 women from a health maintenance organization who identified themselves as survivors of CSA completed the ARBQ along with the Trauma Symptom Checklist-40 (TSC-40) and the Symptom Checklist 90R (SCL-90-R). Results: Three reliable ARBQ subscales emerged in Study 1: Guilt, Shame, and Resilience. Twelve-month test-retest reliability was high (r = 0.60 - 0.64). The internal consistency of the subscales was further supported in Study 2, and validity was demonstrated by moderate to high correlations with the distress measures. Conclusions: The results indicate that the ARBQ has good psychometric characteristics, supporting the feasibility of its use in measuring abuse-related beliefs in research on survivors of CSA. A next step for validation of the ARBQ would be to evaluate its sensitivity in measuring changes in studies of interventions for treating CSA survivors. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10