Assessing the Interpersonal Circumplex Model in Late Childhood

Abstract

The authors developed the Interpersonal Behavior Questionnaire for Children with the aim of assessing the constructs of the interpersonal circumplex model, that is, Dominance and Love and their possible combinations, via third- to fifth-grade children's self- and peer reports. In the three studies presented herein, the authors examined several psychometric properties of the questionnaire. Results demonstrated that children's ratings along the questionnaire yielded the hypothesized circumplex structure of the interpersonal variables; that they reached significant association levels with external criteria; and that they were reliable. Specifically, interrater correlations were shown to reach substantive levels when inspected in older children, when scores were aggregated over raters, and when dominant behaviors were evaluated. Overall, the findings demonstrated the tenability of the circumplex model in young ages via children's ratings. The authors suggest that both personality assessment and personality development research may take advantage from using children's evaluations, in addition to adults' ratings of their children's personality.

Mother-Child Interpersonal Dynamics: The Influence of Maternal and Child ADHD Symptoms

“…Thus, our findings suggest that as child ADHD symptoms increase, both dyad members are less likely to respond to their partners' affiliative behaviour with an affiliative gesture. Such findings extend previous work on the interpersonal behaviours of children (e.g., Di Blas, 2007;Di Blas, Grassi, Luccio, & Momentè, 2012;Markey et al, 2005;Pennings et al, 2014;Sodano & Tracey, 2006;Thijs, Koomen, Roorda, & ten Hagen, 2011), and show that during interactions, children influence and are influenced by the interpersonal behaviours of their mothers. Past work has examined how a child's behaviour profile impacts complementarity.…”

Capturing Impact Messages in Parent–Child Interactions

“…This implies that the general theoretical assumptions of the two-factor structure are applicable, but the octants of the IPC cannot be adequately represented by the IMI@YA. Former studies on IPC in children (di Blas, 2007;di Blas et al, 2012) or parent-child dyads (Markey et al, 2005) confirmed the expected circular structure of the IPC in self-ratings of actual behavior. This suggests that the interpersonal behaviors of parents and children follow the structure of the model, whereas interpersonal perceptions and covert reactions are only roughly aligned with the two basic dimensions (e.g.…”

Reassessment of innovative methods to determine the number of factors: A simulation-based comparison of exploratory graph analysis and next eigenvalue sufficiency test.

“…Circumplex models are common in different lines of psychological research. For instance, they are discussed as appropriate models of relations among affective states (Fabrigar et al, 1997;Gurtman & Pincus, 2000;Gurtman & Pincus, 2003;Remmington et al, 2000;Tracey, 2000) and interpersonal problems (Alden et al, 1990;Boudreaux et al, 2018;Di Blas et al, 2012;Hopwood et al, 2011;Hopwood & Good, 2019;Locke, 2000;Zimmermann & Wright, 2017).…”

“…One reason for this is that circumplex models are not necessarily entertained through FA (Browne, 1992). Another reason is that even when circumplex models are estimated through EFA or PCA, none of the formal methods to determine the number of factors are commonly applied (Alden et al, 1990;Boudreaux et al, 2018;Di Blas et al, 2012;Hopwood et al, 2011;Hopwood & Good, 2019;Locke, 2000). Still, circumplex models suffice our intention to review NEST and EGA in light of cross-loadings as they have a clearly defined number of factors.…”

“…We considered several types of circumplex models in Study 2 due to ambiguity in literature on circumplex models. First, the analyzed variables in circumplex models may be individual items (Alden et al, 1990;Boudreaux et al, 2018;Di Blas et al, 2012;Hopwood et al, 2011;Locke, 2000) or aggregations across subscales containing multiple items (Gurtman & Pincus, 2000;Hopwood & Good, 2019;Locke, 2000;Rogoza et al, 2021;Tracey, 2000;Zimmermann & Wright, 2017). Therefore, we designed different simulations to account for data sets under circumplex models on item-level and under circumplex-models on subscale-level.…”