J Korean Med Sci.  2014 Jun;29(6):837-845. 10.3346/jkms.2014.29.6.837.

The Korean Version of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children: Psychometric Properties and the Connection to Trauma among Korean Children and Adolescents

• Chung US

• KMID: 1796948
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2014.29.6.837

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to develop a Korean version of the trauma symptom checklist for children (TSCC) and to examine its reliability and validity for screening posttraumatic stress symptoms. A normative group of 405 children and adolescents aged 8 to 16 yr participated in the study. A test-retest procedure was conducted with 76 participants from the normative group after 4 weeks. In the traumatized group, 73 children and adolescents of the same age from the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Center were included. Good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) for the total scale (0.95, ranging 0.79-0.85 on the clinical scales) and test-retest reliability for the total scale (r=0.91, ranging 0.71-0.87 on the clinical scales) were found. Confirmatory 6-factor analysis explained 51.1% of the variance. Other measures such as concurrent or discriminative validity were also shown to be satisfactory. In conclusion, the Korean version of TSCC has been shown to be a screening instrument with satisfactory psychometric qualities that is capable of identifying trauma symptoms among children and adolescents who have self-reported experiencing trauma or for whom clinicians have identified traumatic experiences.

Keyword

Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children; Post-Traumatic Stress; Self-Assessment; Children; Adolescents; Child Sexual Abuse; Screening

MeSH Terms

Adolescent
Analysis of Variance
Anxiety
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Checklist/*methods
Child
Child Abuse, Sexual/psychology
Depression/psychology
Female
Humans
Male
Mental Disorders/diagnosis/psychology
Observer Variation
*Psychology, Adolescent
Psychometrics
Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results
Republic of Korea
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/diagnosis/*psychology

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