Temperament Similarities and Differences: A Comparison of Factor Structures from the Behavioral Style Questionnaire in Children with and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder
Publication Date
5-2019
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology
Keywords
Autism, Temperament, Factor structure, Developmental disabilities
Abstract
The majority of studies of temperament in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) use scales normed on typical populations. The present study examined a widely used measure of temperament, the Behavioral Style Questionnaire (McDevitt and Carey in Behavioral Styles Questionnaire, Behavioral-Developmental Initiatives Scottsdale, AZ, 1975) to determine whether it contains the temperament traits theorized by its creators. Neither confirmatory nor exploratory factor analysis, using a sample of children with ASD and a population comparison group, identified the theorized nine temperament factors; many items did not strongly load on any of the original factors. A 10 factor solution best described the ASD data and a 9 factor solution best described the typical group’s data. There were substantial similarities in the 9 factor solutions, but groups differed from one another enough to question construct similarity for several factors. These results highlight that more basic psychometric research is needed to better understand the BSQ in children with ASD.
Copyright Date
1-2-2019
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Barger, B., Moody, E. J., Ledbetter, C., D'Abreu, L., Hepburn, S., & Rosenberg, S. A. (2019). Temperament similarities and differences: A comparison of factor structures from the behavioral style questionnaire in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(5), 1749-1762. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-03866-1
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application/pdf
Language
English (eng)
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14 pgs
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906 KB
Publication Title
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume
49
Issue
5
First Page
1749
Last Page
1762
ISSN
1573-3432
Recommended Citation
Barger, Brian; Moody, Eric J.; Ledbetter, Caroline; D’Abreu, Larissa; Hepburn, Susan; and Rosenberg, Steven A., "Temperament Similarities and Differences: A Comparison of Factor Structures from the Behavioral Style Questionnaire in Children with and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder" (2019). Psychology: Graduate Student Scholarship. 1.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/psychology_student/1
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-03866-1