Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire – Revised – Chinese Version

Description

Temperament is one of the core factors that influence an individual’s self-concept. Both temperament and self-concept involve certain aspects of emotion and personality. Temperament refers to the differences in reactivity and self-regulation that individuals display in the domains of emotion, activity, and attention. Based on the development model of temperament, Capaldi and Rothbart (1992) designed a temperament questionnaire for adolescents aged 9 to 15, which includes four major factors: Effortful Control (including Attention, Behavioral Control, and Inhibitory Control), Affiliation (including Sociability, Perceptual Sensitivity, and Pleasant Experiences), Negative Affect (frustration), and Extraversion (high-intensity pleasure, fear, and shyness). The Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire – Revised (EATQ-R) was created based on the original questionnaire by Capaldi and Rothbart in 1992, which has both self-report and parent-report versions. This research used the children’s self-report version. The revised temperament questionnaire by Ellis and Rothbart (1992) contains 53 items and includes 10 subscales, forming four major factors as previously mentioned. The questionnaire uses a 5-point scoring system ranging from 1 to 5, which corresponds to “Strongly Disagree,” “Disagree,” “Neutral,” “Agree,” and “Strongly Agree.” The internal consistency coefficients for the 10 subscales range from 0.65 to 0.82.

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Administration Method and Scoring

The questionnaire employs a convenient sampling method, surveying students from four schools in Nanjing and five schools in Songjiang District, Shanghai, totaling 1018 students from grades four to six. The scoring is based on a 5-point Likert scale.

Reliability and Validity

The internal consistency coefficients for the six factors are as follows: Effortful Control: 3.971±0.679, Affiliation: 3.832±0.988, Negative Affect: 2.734±0.780, Extraversion: 2.683±1.092.

Factors and Subscales

– 努力控制 (Effortful Control)
– 归属感 (Affiliation)
– 负性情感 (Negative Affect)
– 外向性 (Extraversion)
– 高强度愉快 (High-Intensity Pleasure)
– 害羞 (Shyness)

Keywords

Temperament, Self-Concept, Adolescents, Questionnaire, Effortful Control, Affiliation, Negative Affect, Extraversion, Shyness

Items in Chinese

1. 我能在期限内完成我的作业。
2. 我很容易就能专心地做家庭作业。
3. 我会等到交作业的期限快到了，才开始动手。
4. 我做事会做到一半就放弃，然后再做另外一件事。
5. 如果有棘手的作业必须要完成，我会马上动手做。
6. 我能坚持我的计划跟目标。
7. 即使不应该，我还是会在写作业前先玩一下子。
8. 当别人告诉我该如何做某件事时，我会很注意地倾听。
9. 要准时完成工作，对我来说很困难。
10. 我喜欢秋天落叶窸窸窣窣的声音。
11. 我喜欢联听鸟叫。
12. 我喜欢在林间散步，看着树。
13. 我喜欢看天空中云朵的样子。
14. 我喜欢暖风轻吹脸颊的感觉。
15. 跟喜欢飙车的人一起骑车会让我觉得很恐怖。
16. 我觉得用滑板快速滑下陡坡是件很吓人的事。
17. 我怕尝试危险的运动，例如，深海潜水。
18. 如果我想做但爸妈却不让我做某件事，我会变得非常愤怒。
19. 当我必须中断我喜欢做的事，我会感到生气。
20. 我很讨厌要排很长的队。
21. 当别人在我说话时插嘴，我会感到受挫。
22. 在还不能打开礼物前，我很难忍住不打开它。
23. 打电话遇到占线，我会觉得很烦。
24. 当我不能把一件事做得很好，我会觉得焦躁不安。
25. 我越想阻止自己做某件不该做的事，就越可能去做。
26. 我是个害羞的人。
27. 我不是个害羞的人。
28. 和异性的小朋友在一起时，我会觉得很害羞。
29. 与新朋友见面时，我会害羞。
30. 我容易注意到别人没发现的小改变。
31. 我很能注意到发生在自己身边许多不同事情的变化。
32. 我会注意到周围发生的小改变，像是房间里的光线变亮了。

Items in English

1. I can complete my homework by the deadline.
2. I can easily concentrate on doing homework.
3. I wait until the deadline to start my homework.
4. I tend to give up halfway through something and start another task.
5. If there’s a tricky assignment that needs to be completed, I will start on it right away.
6. I can stick to my plans and goals.
7. Even when I shouldn’t, I still play a bit before doing my homework.
8. When someone tells me how to do something, I pay close attention.
9. It’s difficult for me to complete tasks on time.
10. I like the sound of autumn leaves rustling.
11. I enjoy listening to birds singing.
12. I like walking in the woods and looking at trees.
13. I enjoy watching the clouds in the sky.
14. I like the feeling of a warm breeze on my face.
15. Riding with someone who likes to race makes me feel scared.
16. I find it scary to skateboard down a steep hill.
17. I am afraid to try dangerous sports, like deep-sea diving.
18. If I want to do something but my parents won’t let me, I get very angry.
19. I feel angry when I have to interrupt something I enjoy doing.
20. I hate waiting in long lines.
21. I feel frustrated when someone interrupts me while I’m speaking.
22. I find it very hard to resist opening a gift before I am allowed.
23. I get annoyed when I reach a busy phone line.
24. I feel anxious when I can’t do something well.
25. The more I try to stop myself from doing something wrong, the more likely I am to do it.
26. I am a shy person.
27. I am not a shy person.
28. I feel shy when I am with friends of the opposite sex.
29. I feel shy when I meet new friends.
30. I easily notice small changes that others don’t see.
31. I notice many different changes happening around me.
32. I notice small changes like the light in the room getting brighter.

References

耿丽娜. 父母教养行为与儿童气质对流动儿童自我概念发展的影响[D].南京师范大学,2017.