Self-control and effortful control.
15 catalogued instruments are currently grouped under this construct, across 6 domains: Developmental, child, family and couple; Health, quality of life and health psychology; Large-scale assessment; Personality: broadband models; Personality: dark traits and pathology; Self-regulation and positive traits.
Instruments are grouped by what each entry’s description says it measures, and the list may be incomplete. Read each entry for its exact coverage.
- CBQ - Children's Behavior Questionnaire
Developmental, child, family and couple. 195 (standard); 94 (short form); 36 (very short form). copyrighted - author permission.
- ATQ - Adult Temperament Questionnaire
Developmental, child, family and couple. 77 (short form); a long form (~249 items) also exists. copyrighted - author permission.
- EATQ-R - Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire - Revised
Developmental, child, family and couple. ~65 (self-report long); short forms exist; parent-report version available. copyrighted - author permission.
- ECBQ - Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire
Developmental, child, family and couple. 201 (standard); 107 (short form); 36 (very short form). open with attribution.
- TMCQ - Temperament in Middle Childhood Questionnaire
Developmental, child, family and couple. ~157 (parent report). open with attribution.
- WOC / WCQ - Ways of Coping Questionnaire
Health, quality of life and health psychology. 66 (50 scored). copyrighted - commercial.
- SSES - OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills
Large-scale assessment. Student assessment covering 15 skills (approx 8 items per skill) plus student, parent, teacher and principal context questionnaires. mixed.
- 16PF (5th ed.) - Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (5th Edition)
Personality: broadband models. 185 items. copyrighted - commercial.
- CPI - California Psychological Inventory
Personality: broadband models. CPI 434 (434 items, ~18-20 folk scales); CPI 260 (260 items). copyrighted - commercial.
- SIPP-118 (SIPP-SF) - Severity Indices of Personality Problems
Personality: dark traits and pathology. 118 (SIPP-SF short form 60). copyrighted - author permission.
- BSCS - Brief Self-Control Scale
Self-regulation and positive traits. 13 items. public-domain / open.
- SCS - Self-Control Scale (full)
Self-regulation and positive traits. 36 items. public-domain / open.
- MAIA - Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness
Self-regulation and positive traits. 32 items. public-domain / open.
- SMS - Self-Monitoring Scale
Self-regulation and positive traits. 25 items. public-domain / open.
- SSRQ - Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire
Self-regulation and positive traits. 31 items. public-domain / open.
Related constructs in self-regulation, motivation and coping
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