Validating new summary indices for the Childhood Trauma Interview: Associations with first onsets of major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders.
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Childhood and adolescent adversity is of great interest in relation to risk for psychopathology, and interview measures of adversity are thought to be more reliable and valid than their questionnaire counterparts. One interview measure, the Childhood Trauma Interview (CTI; Fink et al., 1995), has been positively evaluated relative to similar measures, but there are some psychometric limitations to an existing scoring approach that limit the full potential of this measure. We propose several new summary indices for the CTI that permit examination of different types of adversity and different developmental periods. Our approach creates several summary indices: one sums the severity scores of adversities endorsed; another utilizes the number of minor and major (moderate to severe) adversities. The new indices were examined in association with first onsets of major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety disorders across a 5-year period using annual clinical diagnostic interviews (Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR). Summary scores derived with the previously used approach were also examined for comparison. Data on 332 participants came from the Youth Emotion Project, a longitudinal study of risk for emotional disorders. Results support the predictive validity of the proposed summary scoring methods and indicate that several forms of major (but typically not minor) adversity are significantly associated with first onsets of MDD and anxiety disorders. Finally, multivariate regression models show that, in many instances, the new indices contributed significant unique variance predicting disorder onsets over and above the previously used summary indices.
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More childhood and adolescent major adversities predicted the subsequent onset of anxiety disorders over the next several years in a sample of late adolescents.
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- Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Wolitzky-Taylor, K., Doane, L. D., Epstein, A., Sumner, J. A., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R. E., Craske, M. G., Isaia, A., Hammen, C., & Adam, E. K.
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- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Arizona State University (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
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- Venue
- Psychological Assessment
- Published
- 2014-09
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 730-740
- ISSN
- 1040-3590 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-134X
- PMC
- PMC4698348
- OpenAlex
- W2033075474
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 37
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- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 1
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- 5.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Psychological Assessment (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
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- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01-MH065652, R01-MH065651, F32-MH091955)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- childhood adversity, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, interview scoring, predictive validity
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Child Abuse, Major Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Major, Female, Humans, Interview, Psychological, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Psychometrics, Risk Factors, Violence, Reproducibility of Results, Multivariate Analysis, Logistic Models
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