The Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire Very Short Form (ECBQ VSF) and its adaptation to the population of the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15410/19:73596893

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.psychiatria.com.pl/index.php/wydawnictwa/2019-vol-19-no-3/kwestionariusz-zachowan-malego-dziecka-wersja-bardzo-krotka-ecbq-vsf-i-jego-czeska-adaptacja?aid=865" target="_blank" >http://www.psychiatria.com.pl/index.php/wydawnictwa/2019-vol-19-no-3/kwestionariusz-zachowan-malego-dziecka-wersja-bardzo-krotka-ecbq-vsf-i-jego-czeska-adaptacja?aid=865</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15557/PiPK.2019.0029" target="_blank" >10.15557/PiPK.2019.0029</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire Very Short Form (ECBQ VSF) and its adaptation to the population of the Czech Republic

Original language description

Temperament can be defined as a complex of typical innate traits which manifest themselves in characteristic ways of reacting, acting, and feeling. In 1981, Mary Rothbart published the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire on toddlers’ behaviour, based on parental assessments in certain situations, which perceived temperament as “constitutionally-based individual differences in reactivity and regulation.” The process of adapting the tool to the Czech population commenced in 2017. Objectives: The aim of the study was to adapt the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire Very Short Form (ECBQ VSF) on temperament to the Czech population of children. The results are to be used for the possible distribution to child psychologists for research purposes. Subjects and setting: The data were obtained from a representative sample of parents of 709 children aged 18–36 months [371 (52%) boys and 338 (48%) girls]. Results: The reliability of the adapted test was verified with Cronbach’s alpha – first, for individual scales in general, then for individual scales divided by gender and age. Except for one case (boys – Surgency scale – age 18–23 months), Cronbach alpha values were within an acceptable range. The distribution of items into individual scales was verified with a factor analysis. The factor analysis confirmed the distribution of items into scales with the similarity of the original questionnaire’s version. Five controversial items were identified. Future research activities will focus on explaining this phenomenon. Differences between values obtained in boys and girls were determined with two-way ANOVA. The differences were found in the Surgency scale according to age and the Effortful Control scale according to age and gender as well. In the Surgency scale, the score increases along with the age; with the Effortful Control scale, girls achieved higher scores than boys. The score also increases with probands’ age. Upon the completion of the work, the ECBQ VSF questionnaire was adapted for the use in research activities targeted at the Czech population. Study limits: The results are based on a parental evaluation, but this was entirely consistent with the process of the creation of the original tool.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Psychiatria i Psychologia Kliniczna-JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

ISSN

1644-6313

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

281-287

UT code for WoS article

000493353200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85074531090