Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Temperament Assessment Battery for Children-Revised: Parent Form

Ball, Christopher; Pelco, Lynn E.; Havill, Valerie L.; Reed-Victor, Evelyn

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“…The TABC -R inhibition subscale consists of 10 items (e.g., ''My child is shy with adults he/she does not know'') that assess inhibited behavior. The scale is reported to have high internal consistency for both parent and teacher forms (R. P. Martin, personal communication, November 27, 1995;Ball, Pelco, Havill, & Reed, 2001). However, the TABC -R does not adequately assess the three contexts in which inhibition may be displayed and it predominantly focuses on inhibition in response to unfamiliar adults and peers (i.e., 7 of the 10 items focus on social inhibition), with only 3 items assessing inhibition in unfamiliar situations and no items assessing inhibition in response to novel physical activities that are suggestive of minor risk.…”

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Can Parents and Teachers Provide a Reliable and Valid Report of Behavioral Inhibition?

2003

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Reliability and validity of parent and teacher report of behavioral inhibition (BI) was examined among children aged 3 to 5 years. Confirmatory factor analysis supported 6 correlated factors reflecting specific BI contexts, each loading on a single, higher order factor of BI. Internal consistency was acceptable, with moderate stability over 1 year and strong correlation with a brief inhibition subscale from a temperament questionnaire. Children who were rated by mothers and teachers as high BI took longer to initiate contact with a stranger, spoke less often and for shorter periods, and required more prompting to elicit speech compared with low-BI peers in a simulated stranger interaction task. Father report of BI was significantly associated with mean duration of speech and eye gaze.

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Can Parents and Teachers Provide a Reliable and Valid Report of Behavioral Inhibition?

2003

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“…The TAB-R consists of 37 behaviors, which are rated on a 7-point Likert scale and create four scales: Negative Emotionality, Activity Level, Persistence, and Behavioral Inhibition. Reliability on these scales, as reported by alpha coefficients, ranges from .70 to .90 (Ball et al 2001;Martin and Bridger 1999). In the current study, alpha coefficients for the four factors for the children with autism were .82, .73, .75, and .81, respectively.…”

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Child Temperaments, Differential Parenting, and the Sibling Relationships of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Stoneman

2008

J Autism Dev Disord

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This study examined associations between sibling temperaments, differential parenting, and the quality of the relationships between 50 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their typically developing siblings. The temperament dimension of persistence, but not activity level or emotional intensity, was found to relate to the quality of the sibling relationship. Effects were stronger for temperaments of the typically developing siblings, but persistence levels of both groups of children interacted to predict sibling relationship quality. Persistence also was the temperament dimension associated with differential parenting, with increased levels of differential parenting occurring when siblings, and to some degree the children with ASD, were low in persistence. When siblings were dissatisfied with differential parenting, quality of the sibling relationship was compromised.

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“…Many of these instrument builders began with one of the original instruments, and factor‐analyzed the items in an attempt to verify the nine dimensional structure (e.g., Presley & Martin, 1994), or augmented the items in minor ways to more fully assess the structure (e.g., Lerner, Palermo, Spiro, & Nesselrode, 1982). As this kind of research has accumulated, it has become clear that some of the Thomas and Chess dimensions have held up under factor analysis, while others have not (Ball, Pelco, Havill, & Reed‐Victor, 2001; Presley & Martin, 1994).…”

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Personality Structure as Derived From Parental Ratings of Free Descriptions of Children: The Inventory of Child Individual Differences

Halverson

Havill

Deal

et al. 2003

Journal of Personality

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Based on over 50,000 parental descriptors of children gathered in eight different countries, we used a combination of focus group sorting of descriptors in each country and factor analyses of instruments developed in four of the countries (United States, China, Greece, and the Netherlands) to describe children ages 3 to 12 years to select items for an instrument that would work well across countries to access personality. Through many factor analyses of indigenous items in each country, a core set of 141 items was used in three of the countries, with over 3000 parents responding to our instruments in China, Greece, and the United States. Much cross-comparative research analysis has resulted in 15 robust midlevel scales that describe the structures of parental descriptors that are common to the three countries. The data on the English (U.S.) sample are presented in detail. Links to temperament and behavior problems are presented and discussed.

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Temperament Assessment Battery for Children-Revised: Parent Form

Abstract: Temperament refers to the biologically rooted, individual differences in behavioral tendencies that present early in life and are relatively stable across situations and over time. Temperament has been shown to relate to adult per-

Cited by 7 publications

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Can Parents and Teachers Provide a Reliable and Valid Report of Behavioral Inhibition?

Can Parents and Teachers Provide a Reliable and Valid Report of Behavioral Inhibition?

Child Temperaments, Differential Parenting, and the Sibling Relationships of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Personality Structure as Derived From Parental Ratings of Free Descriptions of Children: The Inventory of Child Individual Differences

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