Sexual abuse trauma among professional women: validating the Trauma Symptom Checklist-40 (TSC-40).
This study examines the usefulness of the Trauma Symptom Checklist (TSC-40) in measuring the long-term sequelae of sexual abuse. In a national survey of 2,963 professional women, the TSC-40 was found to be reliable and to display predictive validity with regard to childhood sexual victimization. Women who reported a sexual abuse history scored significantly higher than did women with no history of abuse on each of the six subscales and on the overall TSC-40 score. Various aspects of childhood victimization were associated with the subscale scores, with the Sexual Abuse Trauma Index and Dissociation subscales being more sensitive to the specific components of the abuse.
Elliott
D M
DM
Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, La Mirada, CA 90639-0001.
Briere
J
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology*