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Elsevier, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 6(28), p. 590-598, 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2014.06.006

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Abuse and neglect in adolescents of Jammu, India: The role of gender, family structure, and parental education

Journal article published in 2014 by Ruby Charak ORCID, Hans M. Koot ORCID
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Abstract

The present study aimed to assess the factor structure of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ; Bernstein & Fink, 1998), and use it to describe the prevalence of abuse and neglect in Indian adolescents, and its associations with gender, family structure (nuclear vs. joint), and level of parental education. Participants were 702 adolescents from Jammu in the age range of 13-17 years (41.5% female). We found acceptance for a four-factor intercorrelated model for the CTQ with emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect (5 emotional neglect and 2 physical neglect items) factors following a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Forty one to sixty one percent of adolescents reported maltreatment which is higher in comparison with CTQ based studies from the West. Analysis of CFA with covariates (MIMIC model) indicated that males, and adolescents of less educated mothers’ and from joint families reported higher abuse and neglect, and sexual abuse, respectively, while fathers’ education level was not associated with abuse or neglect. Implications of these findings are highlighted.