Abstract
The purposes of the present study were to develop a Cognitions Inventory of Non-lethal Trauma (CINT), and to investigate the reliability and validity of that inventory. After the inventory was developed on a sample of 302 undergraduate students, 902 undergraduates completed the resulting inventory. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that the Cognitions Inventory of Non-lethal Trauma consisted of 19 items loading on 4 factors. Cronbach's a coefficient was sufficiently high (a= .85), and the validity of the inventory was confirmed by content validity and criterion-referenced validity, concurrent validity. The present results suggest that the Cognitions Inventory of Non-lethal Trauma has high reliability and validity. The clinical availability of the Cognitions Inventory of Non-lethal Trauma was discussed.
