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Abstract
Objective
Violence against children is a global public health concern. Researchers are increasingly using self-report measures of physical, psychological, and sexual violence and neglect for population-based surveys. The current gold-standard measure, the 45-item ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool has been used across the world. This study assesses its adequacy for measuring abuse across countries.
Methods
Multiple group confirmatory factor analyses were used to assess the configural, metric and scalar invariance of the measure across nine Balkan countries. Data were…
This book is designed to help children and young people understand what abuse and neglect are, and who to ask for help if it happens to them or to someone they know. The book is written in the Serbian context and is available in English and Serbian. The book defines abuse and neglect including physical violence, corporal punishment, emotional harm, verbal violence, humiliation, peer isolation, electronic bullying, sexual violence and sexual abuse, verbal sexual violence, physical and emotional neglect, and more, and provides examples of these forms of abuse and…
This book is designed to help children and young people understand what abuse and neglect are, and who to ask for help if it happens to them or to someone they know. The book is written in the Serbian context and is available in English and Serbian. The book defines abuse and neglect including physical violence, corporal punishment, emotional harm, verbal violence, humiliation, peer isolation, electronic bullying, sexual violence and sexual abuse, verbal sexual violence, physical and emotional neglect, and more, and provides examples of these forms of abuse and…