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Development of Perception of Child Maltreatment Scale

Author(s) -

Sunday B. Fakunmoju,

Funmi O. Bammeke

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

sage open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 2158-2440

DOI - 10.1177/2158244013490703

Subject(s) - psychological abuse , child abuse , psychology , neglect , sexual abuse , construct validity , physical abuse , clinical psychology , exploratory factor analysis , child neglect , scale (ratio) , child sexual abuse , poison control , developmental psychology , suicide prevention , psychometrics , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency , physics , quantum mechanics

This article presents reliability and validity analyses of thePerception of Child Maltreatment Scale (PCMS). The scale comprised 34 items that measureabusive behaviors related to emotional/psychological abuse (10 items), sexual abuse (6items), child neglect (6 items), child labor (7 items), and physical abuse (5 items).Analysis was based on a convenience sample of 317 participants in Nigeria. Exploratoryfactor analysis with promax rotation was used to determine construct validity of itsfive-factor structure (subscales). The overall internal consistency of the PCMS was .95;subscales of Emotional/Psychological Abuse (.93) and Sexual Abuse (.91) were high,whereas those of Child Neglect (.89), Child Labor (.86), and Physical Abuse (.84) weregood. Cutoff scores were computed categorizing scores into low/weak, medium/moderate,and high/strong perceptions of child maltreatment. Strengths and limitations as well aspractical applications and implications of the scale for research werediscussed

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