Scoring the Life Events Checklist: Comparison of three scoring methods.
Carissa N WeisE Kate WebbSarah K StevensChristine L LarsonTerri A deRoon-CassiniPublished in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2021)
One method to balance the predictive strength of experienced events and the excellent reliability of a total LEC score, is to adopt the newly proposed weighted score. Future use of this weighted scoring method can provide a comprehensive estimate of lifetime trauma exposure while still emphasizing the direct proximity of experienced events compared with other degrees of exposure. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).