Table 2.

Results of Item analysis for 25 clinical items from the original CTQ-SF.

Subscale	Item	Description	Spearman’s r	Factor loading	Cronbach’s α
					Before deletion	After deletion	Change
Physical abuse					0.713
	A9	Hit hard enough to see doctor	0.422	0.449		0.691	−0.022
	A11	Hit hard enough to leave bruises	0.558	0.557		0.612	−0.101
	A12	Punished with hard objects	0.847	0.555		0.660	−0.053
	A15	Was physically abused	0.547	0.532		0.650	−0.063
	A17	Hit badly enough to be noticed	0.485	0.393		0.702	−0.011
Emotional abuse					0.666
	A3	Called names by family	0.638	0.435		0.610	−0.056
	A8	Parents wished was never born	0.586	0.520		0.599	−0.067
	A14	Family said hurtful things	0.814	0.559		0.560	−0.106
	A18	Felt hated by family	0.302	0.508		0.647	−0.019
	A25	Was emotionally abused	0.473	0.496		0.638	−0.028
Sexual abuse					0.755
	A20	Was touched sexually	0.763	0.473		0.715	−0.040
	A21	Hurt if did not do something sexual	0.522	0.495		0.709	−0.046
	A23	Made to do sexual things	0.489	0.510		0.694	−0.061
	A24	Was molested	0.623	0.504		0.703	−0.052
	A27	Was sexually abused	0.429	0.418		0.733	−0.022
Physical neglect					0.491
	A1	Not enough to eat	0.527	0.725		0.422	−0.069
	A2	Got taken care of	0.690	0.469		0.410	−0.081
	A4	Parents were drunk or high	0.264	0.306		0.494	0.003
	A6	Wore dirty clothes	0.559	0.749		0.434	−0.057
	A26	Got taken to doctor	0.675	0.541		0.396	−0.095
Emotional neglect					0.857
	A5	Made to feel important	0.769	0.602		0.836	−0.021
	A7	Felt loved	0.782	0.618		0.829	−0.028
	A13	Was looked out for	0.804	0.642		0.819	−0.038
	A19	Family felt close	0.811	0.635		0.829	−0.028
	A28	Family was source of strength	0.765	0.667		0.824	−0.033

Bold number refers to meet the deletion criterion.