ASSESSMENT OF TEMPERAMENT AT 13 AND 24 MONTHS USINGMATERNAL REPORT: VALIDATION OF THE PORTUGUESE VERSION OF INFANT CHARACTERISTICS QUESTIONNAIRE

Authors

  • Alexandra Carneiro Centro de Estudos em Desenvolvimento Humano; Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho
  • Pedro Dias Centro de Estudos em Desenvolvimento Humano; Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
  • Carla Magalhães Colégio Nossa Senhora do Rosário; Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
  • Isabel Soares Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho
  • Margarida Rangel-Henriques Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto
  • Joana Silva Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho
  • Sofia Marques Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto
  • Joana Baptista Universidade Lusófona do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.50394

Keywords:

validation, temperament, infancy, assessment.

Abstract

Temperament is a set of individual traits that has his origins in biology that is demonstrated from earlychildhood, and has some kind of continuity over time. So, and since the assessment of temperamentallows us to understand further the child’s functioning, it becomes relevant validate instruments to collectthis type of data. The studies presented here are part of a broader research project that aims to understandthe development of children aged from 0 to 60 months. More specifically, the two studies generally aim tovalidate the Infant Characteristics Questionnaire (ICQ1) for 13 and 24 months of age for the Portuguesepopulation, using mothers as informants. The first sample consists in 289 infants aged between 11 and 20months (Study 1) and the second sample comprised 398 children aged between 21 and 32 months (Study2). The two samples were collected in nurseries and day-care area of †northern Portugal, and areconvenience samples. In collecting data, in addition to completing the ICQ1, the mother was asked tocomplete a questionnaire with demographic information about her, child and pregnancy. The specificobjectives of this study were to evaluate the psychometric properties of the two versions of this instrumentsuch as construct validity and internal consistency. The results show that factorial solutions achievedwere both appropriate for these versions of ICQ1 to 13 months and to 24 months. In addition, levels ofinternal consistency of the dimensions obtained are generally adequate.

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