title: Short temperament questionnaire for children aged 8-12 years in the city of Rome.
abstract: The assessment of temperament is usually measured by means of parental questionnaires. Since temperament questionnaires in children aged 8-12 years do not exist in Italy we planned a study to develop an Italian questionnaire. Initially we tried to adapt Hegvik et al.'s questionnaire and delivered 389 questionnaires to the mothers of children aged 8-12 years, but most of them were given back uncompleted, essentially because they often described behavior not usually observed in Italian children. Then we prepared a new, short (30 items) questionnaire which we distributed to 431 mothers of children aged 8-12 years. This new questionnaire was completed by 98.76% of mothers and a high three week rating-re-rating reliability for the different temperamental characteristics under assessment was proved. We believe that this new questionnaire is reliable for temperament assessment in Italian children aged 8 to 12 years, living in a big city environment in Central Italy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Neurology and Psychiatry, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ottaviano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Innocenzi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ottaviano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Antignani
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bruni
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giannotti
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013694:Temperament