title: Psychometric properties of the temperament and character inventory-revised (TCI-R) in a Belgian sample.
abstract: The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI; Cloninger, Przybeck, Svrakic, & Wetzel, 1994) is a self-questionnaire developed to assess the 7 dimensions of personality described by Cloninger et al. (1994) with a total of 29 subscales. In 1999, a revised version was proposed by Cloninger (TCI-R). In this study, we present psychometric properties of the TCI-R from 958 French-speaking participants of Belgium. Women exhibited higher scores for harm avoidance, reward dependence, and cooperativeness dimensions. The proposed factorial structure of 4 temperament dimensions and 3 character dimensions was confirmed. The TCI-R inventory had good test-retest reliabilities as well as good alpha coefficients. The addition of 3 new subscales to the original scale for Persistence has produced a very reliable dimension in the TCI-R.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Liège, Belgium. michel.hansenne@ulg.ac.be
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hansenne
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delhez
authors.forename: C Robert
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Cloninger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001530:Belgium; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010555:Personality Inventory; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013694:Temperament