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Developmental, child, family and couple

Temperament in Middle Childhood Questionnaire.

TMCQ

What it measures
school-age (ages ~7-10) temperament - 17 scales loading on Surgency, Negative Affectivity and Effortful Control
Length and format
~157 (parent report). 5-point true/untrue of your child (parent report) (informant/observer report)
Language versions
several language adaptations (part of the Rothbart 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
Simonds, J., & Rothbart, M. K. (2004). The Temperament in Middle Childhood Questionnaire (TMCQ): A computerized self-report measure of temperament for ages 7-10. Poster, Occasional Temperament Conference, Athens, GA.

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