Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire.
ECBQ
- What it measures
- toddler temperament (ages ~18-36 months) - 18 fine-grained scales loading on three broad factors: Surgency, Negative Affectivity, and Effortful Control
- Length and format
- 201 (standard); 107 (short form); 36 (very short form). 7-point frequency over the past two weeks (caregiver report), with a not-applicable option (informant/observer report)
- Language versions
- translated into many languages (part of the widely translated Rothbart temperament battery)
- 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
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Putnam, S. P., Gartstein, M. A., & Rothbart, M. K. (2006). Measurement of fine-grained aspects of toddler temperament: The Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire. Infant Behavior and Development, 29(3), 386-401.
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