Adult Temperament Questionnaire.

ATQ

What it measures

Adult temperament; 4 higher-order factors: Effortful Control, Negative Affect, Extraversion/Surgency, Orienting Sensitivity (with constituent subscales)

Length and format

77 (short form); a long form (~249 items) also exists. 7-point (extremely untrue to extremely true of you) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

~12 languages (incl. German and others per the lab)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Evans, D. E., & Rothbart, M. K. (2007). Developing a model for adult temperament. Journal of Research in Personality, 41(4), 868-888. (https://research.bowdoin.edu/rothbart-temperament-questionnaires/)

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