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CAST
Children of Alcoholics Screening Test - deutsche Version
Short abstract
The CAST, adapted from English, can be used to assess parental alcohol exposure in children. It consists of 29 items with a single-factor structure. The psychometric quality was examined in a sample of female subjects suffering from an eating disorder. Reliability: For the total score, Baltruschat et al. (2005) reported a Cronbach's alpha of .95. Validity: The two scales of the shortened version of the CAST were correlated with the SCL-90-R and the FPI-R. Low correlations exist between CAST scales 1 and 2 and the SCL-90-R. They average around r = .14 for scale 1 and around r = .17 for scale 2. With regard to the FPI, there are also low correlations. For CAST scale 1 they are on average around r = .09 and for CAST scale 2 around r = .11.
Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). (2022). Open Test Archive: CAST. Children of Alcoholics Screening Test - deutsche Version. Available at: https://www.testarchiv.eu/en/test/9005908
Citation
Baltruschat, N., Geissner, E. & Klein, M. (2022). CAST. Children of Alcoholics Screening Test - deutsche Version [Verfahrensdokumentation und Fragebogen]. In Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) (Hrsg.), Open Test Archive. Trier: ZPID.
https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5250
Short information
Short Name CAST
English Name Children of Alcoholics Screening Test - German version
Authors Baltruschat, N., Geissner, E. & Klein, M.
Published in Test archive 2022
Copyright/Licence Copyright Authors; CC-BY-SA 4.0
Key words Alcoholism; Alcohol Use Disorder; Alcohol Abuse; Family Relations; Stress
Language versions deu
Application age From 13 years old until young adulthood
Item number 29 items
Subscales None.
Application Time 5-10 minutes
Interpretation time 5 minutes
Internal consistency : Cronbach's alpha = .95 ( total score).
Information about construct validity.
None.
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
Baltruschat, N., Geissner, E. & Klein, M. (2007). Deutsche Version des Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CAST) - Befunde bei Patientinnen mit Magersucht und Bulimie. Suchttherapie, 8 (2), 74-81. PSYNDEX Dok.-Nr. 0198904
Contact information
Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Nicole Baltruschat, Psychologische Psychotherapeutin (Verhaltenstherapie), Siebenbürgenstraße 17, D-91550 Dinkelsbühl
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Edgar Geissner, Diplompsychologe, Psychologischer Psychotherapeut, Supervisor, Department Psychologie, Abt. Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Klein, Kompetenzplattform Suchtforschung, Katholische Fachhochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen (KFH NRW), Wörthstraße 10, D-50668 Köln