Analysis of the Children?s Personal Attributes Questionnaire (Short Form) with a Sample of African American Adolescents

Abstract

This article is based on a partial replication of a previous study in which the Children's Personal Attributes Questionnaire (CPAQ) was administered to a European American sample of children. The sample of the current study included 328 African American adolescents who completed the CPAQ's short form. Psychometric analysis indicated acceptable reliabilities on two of the three subscales, and gender differences were found. A factor analysis yielded three factors, each of which represented a combination of items from the three original subscales. In general, the results closely parallel those reported with European American samples. The findings are discussed in terms of the CPAQ's suitability for an African American adolescent sample.

The role of parental anxiety sensitivity and learning experiences in children's anxiety sensitivity

“…In our study, Cronbach's alphas were .68 for the CPAQ‐F and .59 for the CPAQ‐M, indicating low internal consistency. However, these values were similar to those observed in previous studies (Brody, Hay, & Vandewater, ; Hall & Halberstadt, ; Thomson & Zand, ). The detailed instructions for this scale in English and validity parameters considered as satisfactory are summarized by Hall and Halberstadt () and Thomson and Zand ().…”

“…Learning experiences following somatic symptoms and parents’ AS explained a proportion of the variance in children's AS, but children's EI and feminine/expressive traits are factors that may moderate the association between parental factors and children's AS. For the various scales, means are comparable to those observed in other studies for a non‐clinical population (Bouvard et al ., ; Mavroveli et al ., ; Muris et al ., ; Stassart & Etienne, ; Thomson & Zand, ).…”

“…Boys' greater instrumentality and girls' greater expressiveness are thought to be caused by society's gender role distinctions (Bem, 1981;Thomson & Zand, 2005). Cognitive and environmental factors are supposed to contribute to this distinction.…”

“…Empirical research conducted over the past several decades has supported the view that boys and girls differ in their self-concepts of instrumentality and expressiveness (Spence & Buckner, 2000;Stake & Eisele, 2010;Twenge, 1997). Boys' greater instrumentality and girls' greater expressiveness are thought to be caused by society's gender role distinctions (Bem, 1981;Thomson & Zand, 2005). Cognitive and environmental factors are supposed to contribute to this distinction.…”

African American Gender Roles: A Content Analysis of Empirical Research From 1981 to 2017

“…McGhee et al confirmed the validity of the SRES (BB and KK forms) by comparing scores derived from a sample of African Americans to the norming sample. A similar methodological approach was employed in Thomson and Zand's (2005) assessment of the CPAQ and Norwalk et al's (2011) review of the GRCS. Distinctly, Berkel (2004) demonstrated the validity of the SRES-KK by comparing the scale's psychometric properties between samples of African Americans and European Americans.…”