Reliability and Validity of the Chinese Version of the Childhood Harshness Scale and Unpredictability Scale in University Students
Objective:To test the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Childhood Harshness(Perceived Resource Scarcity)Scale(CHS)and the Chinese version of the Childhood Unpredictability Scale(CUS)for Chinese universi-ty students.Methods:A total of 1056 university students were enrolled from two university in Hunan province,China.Childhood Trauma Questionnaire(CTQ),Subjective Socioeconomic Status(SSS),General Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire(GAD-7),Patient Health Questionnaire-9(PHQ-9)and the PTSD Checklist(PCL-5)were used for testing convergent va-lidity and incremental validity,respectively.After two weeks,a total of 311 participants were enrolled for retesting.Re-sults:Exploratory factor analysis showed a two-factor structure for CHS and a single factor structure for CUS.Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that CHS and CUS had good fitting indexes.CHS was significantly negatively correlated with SSS,and CUS was significantly positively correlated with CTQ,indicating good convergent validity for two scales.Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that CHS and CUS explained additional variance in GAD-7,PHQ-9,and PCL-5 after controlling for the influence of CTQ,indicating that both CHS and CUS have good incremental validity.The internal consis-tency coefficients of CHS and CUS were 0.881 and 0.936,respectively.The test-retest reliability of CHS and CUS were 0.862 and 0.919,respectively.Conclusion:The Chinese version of the CHS and CUS demonstrated good reliability and va-lidity among Chinese university students and could be used as effective instruments to assess childhood harshness and un-predictability.
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