Psychometric properties of teachers' attitudes toward reporting child sexual abuse scale: Turkish form

Abstract

Child sexual abuse is a traumatic experience that has a negative impact on mental and physicalhealth. Studies aimed at preventing sexual abuse also involve reporting the abuse; this way the recurrenceof abuse may be prevented. Teachers play a significant role for school-age children and adolescentsbecause they are adults that can be trusted and asked for help. Therefore, important to understandspecially teachers’ attitudes when teachers reporting sexual abuse case. The aim of this study is tointroduce into Turkish the 14-item version of the Teachers' Attitudes toward Reporting Child SexualAbuse scale that Walsh et al. (2012) had obtained after running a factor analysis and then present it to thefield for use in teacher-oriented studies. According to finding results, the scale is a valid and reliablemeasure for Turkish elementary school teachers.