Abstract
The present study was aimed to revise an indigenous multidimensional Abuse and Neglect Questionnaire (2018) for the screening of past history of abuse and neglect in adults in Pakistan. It was a multistage research project that was executed in three stages. Initial stage was aimed towards item identification from first version of questionnaire that were collated during factor analysis and re-operationalization of the constructs of abuse and neglect and description and explanation of its types. Intermediary stage involved evaluation of the questionnaire by mental health professionals after which experts’ opinions were collated and final questionnaire was devised. Final stage included pilot study on 10 participants which was followed by main study during which data was collected from 500 participants (Mage = 30. 82; SD = 8.8). Demographic Questionnaire and Symptom Checklist Revised (Rahman et al., 2009) were employed during study. A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of 51 items with Varimax rotation yielded 5 factors and the scree plot also showed the emergence of 5 distinct factors which were extracted and labelled as per thematic analysis i.e. Emotional Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Physical Abuse, Emotional Neglect, and Physical Neglect. Well established Psychometric properties of the measure emerged such as the test retest reliability (intra class correlation coefficient) for all subscales comes out to be .96, .95, .91, .74, and .89 respectively; Internal Consistency Reliability (.94, .93, .81, .78, and .56 respectively) and average inter item correlation (.45, .50, .35, .32, and .22 respectively). In addition, the construct and face validity of the respective questionnaire were also established. The development and validation of this questionnaire has manifold implications as it can be employed in the future researches, in clinical settings and can be helpful in devising cultural sensitive indigenous interventions.