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KERF-I
Belastende Kindheitserfahrungen
Short abstract
The KERF-I is a structured interview and was developed based on the original English version of the MACE (Teicher & Parigger, 2011; 2015) for comprehensive, retrospective questioning of adults regarding interpersonal stressful childhood experiences. It includes 75 questions. Reliability: no data are available. Validity: Correlations with the CTQ in a sample of n = 32 female subjects demonstrate the convergent validity of the instrument and moderate to high correlations with various psychopathology scores are also available.
Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). (2023). Open Test Archive: KERF-I. Belastende Kindheitserfahrungen. Available at: https://www.testarchiv.eu/en/test/9006899
Citation
Thekkumthala, D., Schalinski, I., Parigger, A., Ruf-Leuschner M., Elbert, T. & Schauer, M. (2023). KERF-I. Belastende Kindheitserfahrungen [Verfahrensdokumentation, KERF-I, KERF-20-I, Instruktionsanleitung, Auswertungsentwurf, Standardisierte Auswertungsrichtlinien]. In Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) (Hrsg.), Open Test Archive. Trier: ZPID.
https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12495
Short information
Short Name KERF-I
English Name Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure - German version
Authors Thekkumthala, D., Schalinski, I., Parigger, A., Ruf-Leuschner M., Elbert, T. & Schauer, M.
Published in Test archive 2023
Copyright/Licence Copyright Authors; CC-BY-SA 4.0
Key words Child Abuse Reporting; Child Abuse; Child Neglect; Sexual Abuse; Domestic Violence; Physical Abuse; Emotional Trauma; Early Experience
Language versions deu
Construct Burdening childhood experiences
Application age age 18 and older
Item number 75 items
Subscales 10 subscales
Application Time approx. 20-60 minutes
Interpretation time per case approx. 10-15 minutes
No data.
Evidence for convergent validity
None. Cut offs as reference values.
Applications Research; Practice
There is no abstract in English available. Short information about the measure can be found under Overview. More can be found on the German pages.
There is no review in English available. Short information about the measure can be found under Overview. More can be found on the German pages.
First published in
Isele, D., Parigger, A., Ruf-Leuschner, M., Elbert, T. & Schauer, M. |x (2014). Belastende Kindheitserfahrungen (KERF). Konstanz: Universität Konstanz, Fachbereich Psychologie, Klinische Psychologie und Klinische Neuropsychologie.
Downloads
- Questionnaire KERF-I (German) [PDF]
- Questions at the beginning - KERF-I (German) [PDF]
- Standardized evaluation guidelines KERF-I (German) [PDF]
- Compact evaluation information KERF-I (German) [PDF]
- SPSS syntaxes KERF-I [PDF]
- Matrix for SPSS - KERF-I [CSV]
- Matrix for SPSS with questions at the beginning - KERF-I (German) [CSV]
- Questionnaire KERF-20-I (German) [Thekkumthala, D., Schalinski, I., Schauer, M., Ruf-Leuschner, M. & Elbert, T. (2023)] [PDF]
- Evaluation draft KERF-20-I (German) [Thekkumthala, D., Schalinski, I., Schauer, M., Ruf-Leuschner, M. & Elbert, T. (2023)] [PDF]
- Test description KERF-I (German) [PDF]
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Contact information
Prof. Dr. Inga Schalinski, Klinische Psychologie und Traumatherapie, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften, Institut für Psychologie, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, D-85577 Neubiberg
Dr. Dorothea Thekkumthala, Narrative Expositionstherapie, Akademie für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung an der Universität Konstanz e.V., Universitätsstraße 10, D-78457 Konstanz, vivo international e.V., Postfach 5108, D-78430 Konstanz
Dr. Martina Ruf-Leuschner, Psychiatrische Dienste Thurgau, Seeblickstrasse 30, CH-8596 Münsterlingen, Schweiz
Prof. (em.) Dr. Thomas Elbert,Klinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurowissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, D-78457 Konstanz
PD Dr. Maggie Schauer, Universität Konstanz, FB Psychologie, Kompetenzzentrum Psychotraumatologie am Zentrum für Psychiatrie, Haus 22, EG, D-78479 Reichenau-Lindenbühl