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Delineating Personality Traits in Childhood and Adolescence: Associations across Measures, Temperament, and Behavioral Problems
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Tackett, Jennifer L.; Kushner, Shauna C.; De Fruyt, Filip; Mervielde, Ivan – Assessment, 2013
The current investigation addressed several questions in the burgeoning area of child personality assessment. Specifically, the present study examined overlapping and nonoverlapping variance in two prominent measures of child personality assessment, followed by tests of convergent and divergent validity with child temperament and psychopathology.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Psychopathology, Prediction, Personality Measures
The Affect and Arousal Scales: Psychometric Properties of the Dutch Version and Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analyses
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De Bolle, Marleen; De Fruyt, Filip; Decuyper, Mieke – Assessment, 2010
Psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Affect and Arousal Scales (AFARS) were inspected in a combined clinical and population sample (N = 1,215). The validity of the tripartite structure and the relations between Negative Affect, Positive Affect, and Physiological Hyperarousal (PH) were investigated for boys and girls, younger (8-11…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Factor Analysis, Psychometrics, Indo European Languages
Dimensionality and Psychometric Invariance of the Youth Self-Report Form of the Child Behavior Checklist in Cross-National Settings
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Lambert, Michael Canute; Essau, Cecilia A.; Schmitt, Neal; Samms-Vaughan, Maureen E. – Assessment, 2007
The Youth Self-Report Form's (YSR's) factor model was derived from traditional exploratory factor analytical procedures. Assuming appropriate model specification, psychometrically invariant items, and that its items provide useful psychometric information across nations omitted from its normative samples, the YSR is widely used in cross-national…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Psychometrics, Child Behavior, Check Lists
Psychometric Properties of the Dominic Interactive Assessment: A Computerized Self-Report for Children
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Scott, Teresa J. Linares; Short, Elizabeth J.; Singer, Lynn T.; Russ, Sandra W.; Minnes, Sonia – Assessment, 2006
The reliability and validity of the Dominic Interactive (DI) assessment were evaluated. The DI is a computerized self-report measure for children, which assesses symptom presence for seven DSM-IV diagnoses. The participants were 322 children (169 cocaine exposed, 153 noncocaine exposed) who were recruited at birth for a prospective longitudinal…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Child Behavior, Rating Scales, Cocaine