Reactive and Regulative Temperament in Youths: Psychometric Evaluation of the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire-Revised

By P. Muris, C. Meesters. 2009

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The present study examined the psychometric properties of the self-report version of the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire-Revised (EATQ-R), which is a scale for measuring reactive and regulative temperament traits, in a large sample of children and adolescents (N = 1,055). The results indicated that the internal consistency was acceptable for most EATQ-R temperament scales. Further, principal components analysis of the instrument yielded a structure with nine components, which generally reflected the temperament scales of the EATQ-R. The test–retest stability of the scale was moderate to good, whereas the parent–child agreement was rather low. Finally, the scale correlated in a theoretically meaningful way with children’s self-reports of personality and psychopathology. It can be concluded that the EATQ-R is a useful scale for measuring aspects of reactive and regulative temperament in children and adolescents, although there is certainly room for improving the instrument.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Truancy in late elementary and early secondary education: The influence of social bonds and self-control— the TRAILS study (2010, background): “…temperament traits in younger children (as indexed with the Children’s Behavior Questionnaire) remain fairly stable over a two-year period (with test-retest rs between 0.50 and 0.79), and this seems to indicate that they reflect enduring characteristics in youths (see also Muris & Meesters, 2009).”
• Stressful Events and Temperament Change during Early and Middle Adolescence: The TRAILS Study (2012, background): “R scales has been found to be moderate to good, ranging from .69 for high intensity pleasure to .85 for frustration (Muris & Meesters, 2009).”