Development of Short and Very Short Forms of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire

Putnam, Samuel P.; Rothbart, Mary K.

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“…Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ)-Parents completed the short form CBQ (Putnam & Rothbart, 2006) while their children completed the tasks describe above. Two scales were examined in the present study: CBQ Shyness and CBQ Fear.…”

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Fearful temperament and stress reactivity among preschool‐aged children

Talge

Donzella

Gunnar

2008

Infant and Child Development

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In this study, we examined the relation between physiological stress-reactivity and temperamental fearfulness in 162 preschool-aged children. Both the autonomic and neuroendocrine arms of the mammalian stress system were examined. Larger stress responses were defined as greater sympathetic activation, parasympathetic withdrawal and cortisol increases to stressor tasks. Fearful temperament was examined using parent report and behavior in response to fear-evocative laboratory tasks. There was little evidence that larger sympathetic activation or parasympathetic withdrawal was associated with fearful temperament. Greater cortisol reactivity, however, was associated with fearful temperament. Additional analyses examined those children who were consistently fearful across all measures, and the results remained largely the same. However, there was some suggestion that consistently fearful compared to non-fearful children might be more likely to exhibit sympathetic activation to the fear-evocative stimuli. These findings provide support for the argument that fearful temperament is associated with greater stress reactivity in young children. Nonetheless the size of the associations was small and future studies will need to determine whether reactivity of stress-sensitive physiological systems contributes to the development of individual differences in fearful temperament or merely reflects these differences. Keywordstemperament; behavioral inhibition; cortisol; vagal tone; pre-ejection period; childrenThe role of temperamental fearfulness in individual differences in stress reactivity and regulation is of growing interest in developmental neuroscience (e.g., Buss et al., 2003;Kagan, Reznick, & Snidman, 1988) and biological psychiatry (Bakshi & Kalin, 2000;Smoller et al., 2005). This interest reflects an enhanced understanding of the neurobiology of both conditioned (LeDoux & Phelps, 2000) and unconditioned fear (Davis, Walker, & Lee, 1997) and belief that the distributed neural systems underlying acute expressions of fear also support more stable, temperamental variations in fearfulness (Rothbart, 1989). The distributed neural circuits that orchestrate fear behavior have outflows to both arms of the mammalian stress system (Charmandari, Tsigos, & Chrousos, 2005). Specifically, they activate both the autonomic nervous system (ANS) to support fight/flight reactions to threat and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) system, a counter-regulatory system that has multiple roles in adaptation.One role of the HPA system is to shape future behavioral and physiological responses to threat through regulating gene expression in fear-orchestrating brain regions such as the amygdala (Sapolsky, Romero, & Munck, 2000 NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript temperamentally disposed to respond with fear to strange, novel or threatening events produce larger and more prolonged responses of the HPA system, then these responses themselves may operate to lower thresholds for fearful, inhi...

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Section: Stimuli and Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fearful temperament and stress reactivity among preschool‐aged children

Talge

Donzella

Gunnar

2008

Infant and Child Development

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“…La consistencia entre las medidas, mediante su correlación entre ellas, fue corregida por espuriedad o errores correlacionados (Bashaw y Anderson 1967;Levy, 1967). Esta correlación corregida por espuriedad debería ser alta (³ 0.70;Petrides et al, 2003;Putnam y Rothbart, 2006) para argumentar la dependencia lineal entre las formas (Smith et al, 2000). Entre las formas del BSSS, la correlación observada fue 0.89 (IC 95% = 0.87: 0.90) y la correlación corregida fue 0.68 (IC 95% = 0.63: 0.72).…”

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Escala breve de búsqueda de sensaciones (BSSS): estructura latente de las versiones de 8 y 4 ítems en adolescentes peruanos

Merino-Soto

Blas

2017

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Questionnaires were administered to 618 voluntary participants, with an average age of 13.6 years, from different levels of high school, state and private school in a district in the south of Lima. It analyzed the internal structure of both short versions using three models: a) unidimensional (M1), b) oblique or related dimensions (M2), and c) the bifactor model (M3). Results show that both instruments have a single dimension which best represents the variability of the items; a fact that can be explained both by the complexity of the concept and by the small number of items representing each factor, which is more noticeable in the BSSS4. Reliability is within levels found by previous studies: alpha: .745 = BSSS8 and BSSS4 =. 643; omega coefficient: .747 in BSSS8 and .651 in BSSS4. These are considered suitable for the type of instruments studied. Based on the correlation between the two instruments, it was found that there are satisfactory levels of equivalence between the BSSS8 and BSSS4. However, it is recommended that the BSSS4 is mainly used for research and for the purpose of describing populations. ambos instrumentos tienen una sola dimensión que representa mejor la variabilidad de los ítems, hecho que puede ser explicado tanto por la complejidad del concepto como por la pequeña cantidad de ítems que representan a cada factor; aspecto que se potencia en el BSSS4; la fiabilidad cae dentro de los niveles que los estudios anteriores hallaron (Alfa: BSSS8= .745 y BSSS4= .643) y (Coeficiente Omega: .747 del BSSS8 y .651 del BSSS4) los mismos que se consideran adecuados para el tipo de instrumentos estudiados. A partir de la correlación entre ambos instrumentos, se encontró que existen niveles satisfactorios de equivalencia entre el BSSS8 y BSSS4. Se recomienda sin embargo que el BSSS4 se utilice fundamentalmente para trabajos de investigación y con propósitos de describir poblaciones.Palabras clave: búsqueda de sensaciones; adolescente; estructura interna; validación; fiabilidad; equivalencia. Escala breve de búsqueda de sensaciones (BSSS): estructura latente de las versiones de 8 y 4 ítems en adolescentes peruanos

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“…It contains high positive loadings for inhibitory control, attentional control, low intensity pleasure, and perceptual sensitivity scales (Putnam & Rothbart, 2006). Effortful control is commonly identified as children's ability to engage in subdominant responses by inhibiting the dominant response to a situation.…”

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The Interactive Effects of Mothers' Reactions and Children's Temperament on 3- to 6-Year-Olds' Aggression

Cho¹

2013

Child Studies in Diverse Contexts

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Development of Short and Very Short Forms of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire

Cited by 912 publications

References 35 publications

Fearful temperament and stress reactivity among preschool‐aged children

Fearful temperament and stress reactivity among preschool‐aged children

Escala breve de búsqueda de sensaciones (BSSS): estructura latente de las versiones de 8 y 4 ítems en adolescentes peruanos

The Interactive Effects of Mothers' Reactions and Children's Temperament on 3- to 6-Year-Olds' Aggression

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