Psychometric Evaluation of the Factor Structure of the Teasing Questionnaire – Revised (TQ-R)

Recent literature has focused on the relation between childhood teasing and adulthood psychopathology, with the majority of
this work dependent on a single measure, the Teasing Questionnaire-Revised (TQ-R; Storch et al. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 18:681–694, 2004). However, the factor structure and reliability of the TQ-R requires further examination. The present investigation reevaluated
the factor structure of the TQ-R in two large samples. In Study 1, three previous factor models were investigated through
confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) in a large clinical sample. Due to their poor fit, exploratory factor analyses (EFAs)
were used to investigate alternative factor models. In Study 2, the factor structure of the previous models and new models
from Study 1 EFAs were investigated through CFAs and estimates of internal consistency in a large college sample. Together,
these findings provided the most support for a new 21-item five factor model, identified in the Study 1 EFAs and supported
by the Study 2 CFAs, with the content of the teasing subscales consistent with the constructs of anxiety, appearance, academics,
weight, and height.