Deriving Childhood Temperament Measures From Emotion-Eliciting Behavioral Episodes: Scale Construction and Initial Validation
Deriving Childhood Temperament Measures From Emotion-Eliciting Behavioral Episodes: Scale Construction and Initial Validation
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DOI：
10.1037/a0021746
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发表时间：
2011-06-01
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3.6
通讯作者：
Goldsmith, H. Hill
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作者：
Gagne, Jeffrey R.;Van Hulle, Carol A.;Goldsmith, H. Hill
作者描述了实验室气质评估组合（Lab-TAB）的家庭版本的开发和初步验证，该版本旨在通过一系列全面的情绪引发行为事件来评估儿童气质。本文为研究人员提供了使用Lab-TAB评估特定行为和形成与通常研究的气质维度相对应的行为复合物的一般指导方针。我们使用母亲评级和独立的访视后观察员评级，以提供有效性证据，在社区样本的4.5岁的儿童。采用12个Lab-TAB行为事件，产生24个事件内气质成分，这些成分分解为9个更高水平的复合成分（愤怒、悲伤、恐惧、害羞、积极表达、接近、积极参与、持久性和抑制性控制）。这些气质维度与基于情绪的评估中发现的相似。9种复合物之间的相关性为低至中度，表明相对独立。正如预期的那样，Lab-TAB措施和访视后观察员评级之间的协议比Lab-TAB和母亲问卷之间的协议更强。然而，对于积极参与和害羞，母亲的评级确实很好地预测了Lab-TAB中的儿童行为。研究结果表明，情绪引发气质评估方法的可行性，建议适当的方法，数据聚合到特质水平的结构，并设置一些期望之间的关联实验室-TAB尺寸和跨方法之间的收敛程度的实验室-TAB和其他常用的气质评估。
The authors describe the development and initial validation of a home-based version of the Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (Lab-TAB), which was designed to assess childhood temperament with a comprehensive series of emotion-eliciting behavioral episodes. This article provides researchers with general guidelines for assessing specific behaviors using the Lab-TAB and for forming behavioral composites that correspond to commonly researched temperament dimensions. We used mother ratings and independent postvisit observer ratings to provide validity evidence in a community sample of 4.5-year-old children. 12 Lab-TAB behavioral episodes were employed, yielding 24 within-episode temperament components that collapsed into 9 higher level composites (Anger, Sadness, Fear, Shyness, Positive Expression, Approach, Active Engagement, Persistence, and Inhibitory Control). These dimensions of temperament are similar to those found in questionnaire-based assessments. Correlations among the 9 composites were low to moderate, suggesting relative independence. As expected, agreement between Lab-TAB measures and postvisit observer ratings was stronger than agreement between the Lab-TAB and mother questionnaire. However, for Active Engagement and Shyness, mother ratings did predict child behavior in the Lab-TAB quite well. Findings demonstrate the feasibility of emotion-eliciting temperament assessment methodologies, suggest appropriate methods for data aggregation into trait-level constructs and set some expectations for associations between Lab-TAB dimensions and the degree of cross-method convergence between the Lab-TAB and other commonly used temperament assessments.