Table 4.

Results of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) on the Original ACEs Scale in Study 1

	Factor loading	R2
Child maltreatment
Physical abuse (3)	.82	.68
Verbal abuse (1)	.82	.67
Physical neglect (5)	.81	.66
Sexual abuse by grown-ups (4)	.74	.55
Psychological neglect (2)	.73	.54
Physical domestic violence (9)	.72	.52
Household dysfunction
Imprisonment of parental fig. (11)	.83	.69
Family substance abuse (7)	.77	.60
Divorce/separation of parents (13)	.57	.32
Family psychopathology (6)	.49	.24

The numbers in parentheses after the item description refer to the item’s number in the AppendixFactor loadings refer to standardized factor loadings of the indicator with the latent factor. The correlation between the two factors was .61