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Reproducible structure with measurement invariance for the Parent-Report Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire: Findings from three independent samples.

Psychological Assessment, Vol 37(5), May 2025, 214-226; doi:10.1037/pas0001368

Differences in adolescent temperament are associated with innumerable psychological outcomes in the developmental literature and can help link adult personality-based nosology to earlier development. The Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire–Revised is one important measure of adolescent temperament designed to capture constructs within the influential Rothbart temperament model. Yet conflicting factor structures and minimal evidence for measurement invariance across samples and clinical groups have limited its ability to further temperament-based understanding of psychopathology. The goal of the present study was to identify reproducible measurement structures for the parent-rated and self-rated Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire–Revised in multiple large independent samples and to evaluate how that structure corresponded to their proposed theoretical structure. We also tested measurement invariance and compared temperament characteristics in youth with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Findings support the lower order theoretical structure using a reduced set of items in the parent-rated form, including evidence for measurement invariance across samples and clinical groups. Findings confirm important patterns of temperament variation associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis, including lower effortful control and differences in expression of negative affect and surgency. The self-rated form demonstrated poor structural validity and could not be reliably replicated in a confirmatory sample. Parent-reported temperament may help link personality-based models of psychopathology to earlier developmental periods where psychopathology often emerges. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)

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Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 06/07/2025 | Link to this post on IFP |
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