Research article summary (published 30 Jul 2006):

Development of short and very short forms of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire.

Full Abstract

Using data from 468 parents and taking into account internal consistency, breadth of item content, within-scale factor analysis, and patterns of missing data, we developed short (94 items, 15 scales) and very short (36 items, 3 broad scales) forms of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ; Rothbart, Ahadi, & Hershey, 1994; Rothbart, Ahadi, Hershey, & Fisher, 2001), a well-established parent-report measure of temperament for children aged 3 to 8 years. We subsequently evaluated the forms with data from 1,189 participants. In mid/high-income and White samples, the CBQ short and very short forms demonstrated both satisfactory internal consistency and criterion validity, and exhibited longitudinal stability and cross-informant agreement comparable to that of the standard CBQ. Internal consistency was somewhat lower among African American and low-income samples for some scales. Very short form scales demonstrated acceptable internal consistency for all samples, and confirmatory factor analyses indicated marginal fit of the very short form items to a three-factor model.

Author information

Author/s: Putnam, Samuel P (SP); Rothbart, Mary K (MK);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bowdoin College, ME 04011-8469, USA. sputnam(-atsign-)bowdoin.edu

Grants: 5 T32 MH1893 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH01471 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH43361 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Journal: Journal of personality assessment (J Pers Assess), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Aug; vol 87 (issue 1) : pp 102-12

Dates: Created 2006/07/21; Completed 2007/01/09; Revised 2007/12/03;

PMID: 16856791, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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African Continental Ancestry Group - psychology Child Child Behavior Child, Preschool European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology Female Humans Individuality

Infant Longitudinal Studies Male Personality Assessment - statistics & numerical data Poverty - psychology Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data Reproducibility of Results Temperament

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