The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL): A self-report symptom inventory

Derogatis, Leonard R.; Lipman, Ronald S.; Rickels, Karl; Uhlenhuth, E. H.; Covi, Lino

doi:10.1002/bs.3830190102

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“…The 10-item form of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (HSCL; Derogatis, Lipman, Rickels, Uhlenhuth, & Covi, 1974) was used. The HSCL includes five items on anxiety and five on depression.…”

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The mediating role of shame in the relationship between childhood bullying victimization and adult psychosocial adjustment

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Aakvaag

Birkeland

et al. 2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Psychological distress following experiencing bullying victimization in childhood has been well documented. Less is known about the impact of bullying victimization on psychosocial adjustment problems in young adulthood and about potential pathways, such as shame. Moreover, bullying victimization is often studied in isolation from other forms of victimization. Objective: This study investigated (1) whether childhood experiences of bullying victimization and violence were associated with psychosocial adjustment (distress, impaired functioning, social support barriers) in young adulthood; (2) the unique effect of bullying victimization on psychosocial adjustment; and (3) whether shame mediated the relationship between bullying victimization and these outcomes in young adulthood. Method: The sample included 681 respondents (aged 19–37 years) from a follow-up study (2017) conducted via phone interviews derived from a community telephone survey collected in 2013. Results: The regression analyses showed that both bullying victimization and severe violence were significantly and independently associated with psychological distress, impaired functioning, and increased barriers to social support in young adulthood. Moreover, causal mediation analyses indicated that when childhood physical violence, sexual abuse, and sociodemographic factors were controlled, shame mediated 70% of the association between bullying victimization and psychological distress, 55% of the association between bullying victimization and impaired functioning, and 40% of the association between bullying victimization and social support barriers. Conclusions: Our findings support the growing literature acknowledging bullying victimization as a trauma with severe and long-lasting consequences and indicate that shame may be an important pathway to continue to explore. The unique effect of bullying victimization, over and above the effect of violence, supports the call to integrate the two research fields.

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“…The 10-item form of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (HSCL; Derogatis, Lipman, Rickels, Uhlenhuth, & Covi, 1974) was used. The HSCL includes five items on anxiety and five on depression.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The mediating role of shame in the relationship between childhood bullying victimization and adult psychosocial adjustment

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Aakvaag

Birkeland

et al. 2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…Anxiety and depression symptoms were measured with a short version of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-25) (Derogatis, Lipman, Rickels, Uhlenhuth, & Covi, 1974), where respondents were asked to report how troubled they had been in the last week by five anxiety symptoms and five depression symptoms, on a scale from 1–4. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.91.…”

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But were you drunk? Intoxication during sexual assault in Norway

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Strøm

Thoresen

2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Sexual assault often occurs when victims are intoxicated. Rape myth research indicates that intoxicated assaults are sometimes seen as less severe or not as ‘real’ assaults; however, it is unclear if victims of intoxicated sexual assaults differ from victims of non-intoxicated assaults in terms of health and functioning.Objective: We investigated possible differences in mental health, social support and loneliness between intoxicated and non-intoxicated sexual assault victims.Methods: Participants were 1011 young adults (505 exposed to childhood violence and 506 non-exposed) selected from a community telephone survey (T1), and a follow-up survey 12–18 months later (T2). Analyses include one-way ANOVA with Tamhane post hoc tests.Results: There were no significant differences in mental health, social support and loneliness between victims of intoxicated and non-intoxicated sexual assault, although both groups differed significantly from those who did not report sexual assault.Conclusions: These results indicate that intoxicated sexual assaults are no less clinically important than non-intoxicated assaults.

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“…When the first SAMINOR study was planned about year 2000, The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-10) [27] was chosen as a PRO measure of psychological distress. About the same time, it had been used in the Survey of Level of Living in Norway in 1998 [28] and to measure psychological stress among immigrants in the Oslo Health Study [29].…”

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Do Norwegian Sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? A SAMINOR 2 study

Sørlie

Hansen

Friborg

2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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The Western culturally developed Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-10) is a self-report measure of mental distress widely used for both clinical and epidemiological purposes – also in the multiethnic epidemiological SAMINOR studies in Northern Norway, but without any proper cross-cultural validation. Our objective was to test invariance of the HSCL-10 measurements among Sami and the non-indigenous majority population in Northern Norway (participants in the SAMINOR 2 study) and whether the previously used HSCL-10 cut-off level (1.85) fits the Sami subgroups in the study. Participants belonged to Sami core, Sami affiliation, Sami background or majority Norwegian groups. The confirmatory factor analysis framework adapted for testing of measurement invariance showed no significant measurement invariance between the groups indicating that the HSCL-10 response scale predominantly was used in the same way and that significantly different meanings were not ascribed to the same set of questions. The cut-off criteria of 1.85 as indicative of psychological distress based on Norwegian data equal a score of 1.89, 1.94 and 1.91 in the Sami core, Sami affiliation and Sami background groups, respectively. Thus, the same cut-off criterion 1.85 may be safely used in all groups. However, one should still be looking for culture-specific expressions of mental stress.

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The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL): A self-report symptom inventory

Cited by 4,096 publications

References 26 publications

The mediating role of shame in the relationship between childhood bullying victimization and adult psychosocial adjustment

The mediating role of shame in the relationship between childhood bullying victimization and adult psychosocial adjustment

But were you drunk? Intoxication during sexual assault in Norway

Do Norwegian Sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? A SAMINOR 2 study

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