Yale-Vermont Adversity in Childhood Scale (Y-VACS)

The Yale-Vermont Adversity in Childhood Scale (Y-VACS) assesses a range of intrafamilial (e.g., physical abuse, witnessing domestic violence) and extrafamilial (e.g., community violence, bullying, natural disasters) adversities, and generates scores that take into account severity and frequency of exposure. The Y-VACS generates a total adversity score, intrafamilial adversity score, extrafamilial adversity score, and individual item scores.

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  • Young Netherlands Twin Register

  • YS_REF
  •   MC FC
    8.0 - 10.0 years   From 2016-01-01 to 2016-01-01

    Mode of collection SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Analysis unit Individual, Family
    References
    Holbrook, H., O’Loughlin, K., Althoff, R., Douglas-Palumberi, H., Kaufman, J., & Hudziak, J. (2015, October). The Yale-Vermont adversity in childhood scale: A quantitative approach to adversity assessment. In American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's 61st Annual Meeting.
    You can also access this dataset using the API (see API Docs).