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Scoring the Life Events Checklist: Comparison of three scoring methods.
Author(s) -
Carissa Weis,
E. Kate Webb,
Sarah Stevens,
Christine L. Larson,
Terri deRoonCassini
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
psychological trauma
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.059
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1942-9681
pISSN - 1942-969X
DOI - 10.1037/tra0001049
Subject(s) - checklist , reliability (semiconductor) , psycinfo , medicine , psychology , medline , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , political science , law , cognitive psychology
Prior trauma history is a reliable and robust risk predictor for PTSD development. Obtaining an accurate measurement of prior trauma history is critical in research of trauma-related outcomes. The Life Events Checklist (LEC) is a widely used self-report measure of trauma history that categorizes events by the proximity to trauma exposure; however, the field has published multiple scoring methods when assessing the LEC. Herein, we propose a novel scoring procedure in which total scores from the LEC are weighted according to the proximity of trauma exposure with "experienced" events weighted most and "learned about" events weighted least.

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