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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 9.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2006 Apr;14(4):307–315. doi: 10.1097/01.JGP.0000196637.95869.d9

TABLE 1.

Psychometric Information on the Modified Childhood Trauma Questionnaire

Distribution of Item Scores* Rotated Factor Loading
Abbreviated item 0 1 >2 1 2 3 4 5
Helped you feel important 43 28 27 0.78 −0.10 0.22 0.10 −0.02
Felt loved 57 25 19 0.83 0.18 0.09 0.15 0.08
Family felt close 43 36 22 0.81 0.14 0.18 0.05 0.12
Family supportive 53 28 19 0.84 0.23 0.10 0.12 0.06
Care/protect you 74 17 9 0.79 0.17 −0.02 0.21 0.10
Take you to doctor 73 11 16 0.63 0.27 −0.17 −0.07 0.27
Said hurtful things 58 23 19 0.23 0.71 0.02 0.23 0.10
Made you afraid 85 9 7 0.19 0.75 0.06 0.14 −0.08
Pushed/grabbed you 77 16 7 0.14 0.75 0.33 −0.03 0.13
Adults argued 19 41 40 0.04 0.52 0.48 0.01 −0.05
Punished you with a belt 63 23 13 0.14 0.18 0.65 0.13 0.27
Adults exchanged blows 91 5 4 0.12 0.11 0.75 0.05 −0.06
Family problems 69 21 9 0.10 0.28 0.11 0.79 −0.03
Family separation 60 30 10 0.27 0.00 0.05 0.80 0.12
Not enough to eat 69 12 19 −0.07 0.03 −0.04 −0.02 0.79
Wore dirty clothes 79 17 4 0.13 0.02 0.15 0.11 0.77
Variance explained
24.6 14.0 9.4 9.2 9.1
*

Percent obtaining each item score with higher scores denoting more adversity.

From a principal-components factor analysis; loadings of 0.50 or greater are in bold.

The communality for each rotated factor divided by the number of items on the entire questionnaire.

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