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Title: Reliability and Validity of Temperament Scales of the NLSY Child assessments
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Baydar, Nazli |
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Reliability and Validity of Temperament Scales of the NLSY Child assessments Working Paper, Seattle WA: Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, October 1993 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Battelle Human Affairs Research Center Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Temperament; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Methods/Methodology; Motor and Social Development (MSD); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Scale Construction; Temperament; Verbal Memory (McCarthy Scale) The child assessments of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth provide a unique source of information for studying cognitive and socio-emotional development longitudinally in a large national sample of children. This paper presents an investigation of the psychometric properties of the temperament scales that measure the personality and social adjustment of children aged 0-6. These scales consist of a set of maternally and interviewer reported items available from the 1986, 1988 and 1990 NLSY administrations. Four temperament scales are presented: two scales for infants aged 6-23 months, and two scales for children aged 2-6 years. Specifically, we investigate whether the temperament scales meet the following criteria: (1) A satisfactory level of internal reliability; (2) comparable factor structures between administrations for children at a given age; (3) comparable factor structures across ages at a given assessment; (4) comparable factor structures longitudinal ly as a cohort ages; (5) stable factor loadings of items across different socio-demographic subpopulations; (6) empirically supported construct validity; and, (7) empirically supported predictive validity. The internal reliability, the stability of the factor structures beyond age 3, construct validity and the predictive validity of the temperament scales were empirically supported. However, the stability of the factor structure across socio-demographic subgroups could not be supported. The implications of this finding is discussed. |
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Baydar, Nazli. "Reliability and Validity of Temperament Scales of the NLSY Child assessments." Working Paper, Seattle WA: Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, October 1993. |