Available Studies
MAP, MARS, LATC
Categories
Affect and Personality
This variable is only available in MAP, MARS, and LATC.
Emotional neglect is a subscale of total adverse experience during childhood. The variable is assessed using 2 questions about parental violence covering the period of time from birth to 18 years of age. Participants are asked to respond to each question using a 5-point rating scale. All values are flipped and converted to a 3 point scale so that each response ranges from 0 to 3, where higher values indicate more emotional neglect. The subscale score ranges from 0 to 18 and is the sum of the individual items, with higher scores indicating more emotional neglect.
Participants were asked the following questions:
When you were growing up...
Response choices for questions 1-5:
Response | Value | Flipped value |
---|---|---|
Not at all | 1 | 3 |
Somewhat | 2 | 2 |
Moderately so | 3 | 1 |
Very much so | 4 | 0 |
Response choices for question 6:
Response | Value | Flipped value |
---|---|---|
Never | 1 | 3 |
Rarely | 2 | 3 |
Sometimes | 3 | 2 |
Often | 4 | 1 |
Always | 5 | 0 |