Child Abuse Potential Inventory: Development of a Short Form

Journal title MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA
Author/s Sarah Miragoli, Daniela Traficante, Elena Camisasca, Paola Di Blasio
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/3
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 69-85 File size 203 KB
DOI 10.3280/MAL2017-003005
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Child Abuse Potential Inventory: Development of a Short Form. A brief version of the Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory was developed using a sample of 102 non-abusive parents and an additional sample of 37 abusive parents. Items were selected to maximize: (a) discriminative function referred to the abuse condition; (b) predictivity of the Abuse scale on the total score; (c) factor stability; (d) clinical validity of the selected items. Scores, resulting in a 17-items scale, demonstrated an internal consistency of .70, a stable 6-factor structure, and substantial correlations with the original Abuse scale (r = .86). Moreover, the reduced scale’s score maintained appropriate correlations with other tools related to the parental function. Therefore, the brief version of the CAP Inventory may be useful as a time-efficient screener for abuse risk.

Keywords: CAP Inventory, child physical abuse, risk assessment, parental skills, prevention.

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