/  Assessment Tools

The Risk-Taking and Self-Harm Inventory for Adolescents

(RTSHIA)

Research Group
CBPI
Contacts Ana Maria de Jesus Xavier José Augusto da Veiga Pinto de Gouveia Marina Isabel Vieira Antunes da Cunha

TITLE OF THE PORTUGUESE VERSION

Inventário de Comportamentos de Risco e Auto-dano para Adolescentes

ORIGINAL VERSION

Vrouva, I., Fonagy, P., Fearon, P. R. M., & Roussow, T. (2010)

PORTUGUESE VERSION

Xavier, A., Cunha, M., & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2011)

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The RTSHIA is a self-report questionnaire that assesses simultaneously risk-taking and self-harm behaviors. This questionnaire includes two subscales assessing separately risk-taking behaviors and self-injurious behaviors. The items contain the word intentionally, or end with the phrase to hurt yourself or to hurt or punish yourself and are rated on a 4-point scale (0 = never; 3 = many times), referring to the lifelong history.

REFERENCES

  • Vrouva, I., Fonagy, P., Fearon, P. R. M., & Roussow, T. (2010). The Risk-taking and Self-harm Inventory for Adolescents: Development and psychometric evaluation. Psychological Assessment, 22, 852-865. doi:10.1037/a0020583

  • Xavier, A., Cunha, M., & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2018). Validation of the Risk-Taking and Self-Harm Inventory for Adolescents in a Portuguese Community Sample. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 52(1), 1–14. doi:10.1080/07481756.2018.1435189.

Link