Participants will complete a battery of self-report questionnaires using standardized scales designed to assess aspects of emotion processing, stress and maltreatment exposure, perceptions of stress, coping strategies, quality of life, general capacity to function, health service utilization, and health beliefs. All components of the self-report measure are derived from well validated and widely used measures that are available in the public domain. Self-report measures include the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) (59–64), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) (65–68), Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) (69–75), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) (76), the Center for Epidemiologic Depression Scale (CES-D) (77), the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Cognition (FACT-Cog version 3) (78), and the Resilience Scale (79). The psychometric properties of these self-report measures have been published widely.
