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Personality: broadband models

Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised.

TCI-R

What it measures
Cloninger's psychobiological model: 4 temperament dimensions (Novelty Seeking, Harm Avoidance, Reward Dependence, Persistence) + 3 character dimensions (Self-Directedness, Cooperativeness, Self-Transcendence), with 29 subscales
Length and format
240 items. 5-point Likert (definitely false - definitely true) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Translated into 30+ languages with local validations/norms (Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, German, plus many others)
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
Cloninger, C. R., Svrakic, D. M., & Przybeck, T. R. (1993). A psychobiological model of temperament and character. Archives of General Psychiatry, 50(12), 975-990.

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