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ERIC Number: EJ1255938
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Jul
Pages: 35
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ISSN: ISSN-0272-930X
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Assessing Temperament among Finnish Early Adolescents and Their Parents: Psychometric Properties of the Short Forms of the Temperament Questionnaires
Kiuru, Noona; Hirvonen, Riikka; Ahonen, Timo
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, v65 n3 Article 2 p294-328 Jul 2019
The aim of this study was twofold: (a) to assess the psychometric properties of the Revised Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire (EATQ-R) and the Revised Adult Temperament Questionnaire (ATQ-R) among 685 Finnish early adolescents and their parents and (b) to investigate the extent to which adolescents and their parents share similar temperaments. Temperaments of early adolescents (mean age = 12.23 years) were rated by the adolescents themselves and their parents. The parents also rated their own temperaments. With minor modifications to the theoretical models, the results supported the factorial validity and reliability of the EATQ-R and the ATQ-R among Finnish adolescents and their parents. Correlations between parents' and adolescents' ratings of adolescent temperament were moderately strong, supporting convergent validity. The results lent weak support to rater-independent similarity of temperament (especially on the effortful control dimension) between parents and their adolescents.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland
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