Validity of adult retrospective reports of adverse childhood experiences: review of the evidence.

By J. Hardt, Michael Rutter. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science (2018, background): “…traumas, are typically assessed many years after their occurrence, introducing biases such as forgetting or infantile amnesia, inaccuracy regarding the timing of events, or mood-congruent memory that result in underreporting of childhood adversity estimates (reviewed in Hardt and Rutter, 2004).”
Maltreatment in childhood substantially increases the risk of adult depression and anxiety in prospective cohort studies: systematic review, meta-analysis, and proportional attributable fractions (2015, background): “Abuse exposure has generally been measured via recall methods which is prone to bias and false memory (Robins et al. 1985; Taylor & Brown, 1988; Coughlin, 1990; Maughan et al. 1995; Neumann et al. 1996; Hardt & Rutter, 2004).”
Psychological Stress in Childhood and Susceptibility to the Chronic Diseases of Aging: Moving Towards a Model of Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms (2011, background): “However, the most likely scenario is that retrospective self-report assessments lead to underreporting of maltreatment (Hardt & Rutter, 2004).”
The link between childhood trauma and depression: insights from HPA axis studies in humans. (2008, neutral): “In general, it is assumed that lack of validity of retrospective self-reports leads to underestimation of the actual occurrence rather than overestimation (Hardt and Rutter, 2004).”
Current research trends in early life stress and depression: review of human studies on sensitive periods, gene-environment interactions, and epigenetics. (2012, positive): “In general, it is assumed that lack of validity of retrospective self reports leads to underestimation of the actual occurrence rather than overestimation (Hardt and Rutter, 2004).”
Magnitude and Risk Factors for Interpersonal Violence Experienced by Canadian Teenagers in the Sport Context (2020, background): “However, selfreported questionnaires help to have a better picture of the extent of abuse and violence compared with formal reports to police (Hardt & Rutter, 2004).”
Borderline Personality Disorder: Disorder of Trauma or Personality, a Review of the Empirical Literature (2015, background): “…the association between CT and later outcomes (Brewin, Andrews, & Gotlib, 1993), the veracity of retrospective reports on CT (Brewin et al., 1993; Hardt & Rutter, 2004; Henry, Moffitt, Caspi, Langley, & Silva, 1994), and prospective longitudinal studies following documented cases of CT and adult…”
The epidemiology of traumatic event exposure worldwide: results from the World Mental Health Survey Consortium (2015, background): “First, since retrospective reports may underestimate reports of TEs, especially those encountered early in life (Fergusson et al. 2000; Hardt & Rutter, 2004) and emotionally charged (Depue et al. 2007), some recall bias is inevitable.”
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Effects of Childhood Abuse on Medical Outcomes in Adulthood (2009, background): “The use of retrospective self-reports may introduce unreliability because such reports of child abuse can be prone to recall biases (17).”
Drawing conclusions about causes from systematic reviews of risk factors: The Cambridge Quality Checklists (2009, background): “However, because of retrospective recall bias, self-reported data about past events can be very unreliable (Farrington 1989; Hardt and Rutter 2004; Henry et al. 1994; Yarrow et al. 1970).”
A Developmental Process Analysis of the Contribution of Childhood Emotional Abuse to Relationship Violence (2010, background): “These authors conclude that the use of retrospective reports is appropriate in a research context unless detailed information is necessary ( Hardt & Rutter, 2004 ).”
Strategy for investigating interactions between measured genes and measured environments. (2005, background): “The dangers of retrospective data are known: normal forgetting, revisionist recall, bias by respondents’ knowledge of subsequent disease outcome, bias from patients’ cognitive dysfunction or low mood, and forward telescoping of recalled events.(76,77) A specific difficulty for retrospective recall i”