Medoff-Cooper B, Carey W B, McDevitt S C
University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia 19104-6096.
J Dev Behav Pediatr. 1993 Aug;14(4):230-5.
Although there are several scales routinely used for assessment of temperament during the first year of life, none of them is well suited to the infant younger than 4 months old. The Early Infancy Temperament Questionnaire (EITQ) was designed to meet this need. The EITQ is a 76-item parent questionnaire for assessing the nine New York Longitudinal Study temperament characteristics in 1- to 4-month-old infants. The majority of the items were adapted from the Revised Infant Temperament Questionnaire to be developmentally appropriate for the very young infant. The standardization population consisted of 404 infants from one pediatric practice. Means for the nine categories were calculated separately for infants from 1 to 2 months and 3 to 4 months old. Internal consistency for the nine categories ranged from .42 to .76. Test-retest scores, completed between 2 to 3 weeks after the first rating, ranged from .43 to .87, with generally increasing retest levels in the older age group. None of the categories showed significant differences between male and female infants. This newly developed instrument should enhance the ability of both researchers and clinicians to assess temperament reliably and to understand better its contribution to clinical problems in the very young child.
虽然有几种量表常用于评估一岁以内婴儿的气质，但没有一种量表非常适合4个月以下的婴儿。早期婴儿气质问卷（EITQ）就是为满足这一需求而设计的。EITQ是一份有76个条目的家长问卷，用于评估1至4个月大婴儿的九种纽约纵向研究气质特征。大多数条目改编自修订版婴儿气质问卷，以使其在发育上适合非常小的婴儿。标准化样本包括来自一家儿科诊所的404名婴儿。分别计算了1至2个月和3至4个月大婴儿九种类别的平均数。九种类别的内部一致性范围为0.42至0.76。在首次评分后2至3周内完成的重测分数范围为0.43至0.87，年龄较大的组重测水平总体上有所提高。各性别婴儿在任何类别上均未显示出显著差异。这种新开发的工具应能提高研究人员和临床医生可靠评估气质的能力，并更好地理解其对幼儿临床问题的影响。
