Measures of Individual Differences in Temperament
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20284685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Albert Mehrabian (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1105-1117 |
| Publication date | 1978-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational and Psychological Measurement (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1644 • E-ISSN: 1552-3888 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001316447803800431 |
| OpenAlex | W2019975729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 10 |
Reliability and validity data are presented for three orthogonal measures of temperament: trait-pleasure, trait-arousal, and trait-dominance. The KR-20 reliability coefficients for the three scales were .91, .60, and .84, respectively. Intercorrelations among the three scales were insignificant and low. Thus, the expectation that these three measures could be used as a parsimonious base for the description of temperament was confirmed. The trait-pleasure scale was correlated positively with measures of social desirability, achieving tendency, extroversion, and affiliative tendency, and was correlated negatively with measures of trait-anxiety, neuroticism, and aggression. The trait-arousal scale was not related to the social desirability scale, and was correlated positively with measures of trait-anxiety, neuroticism, and aggression. The trait-dominance scale was also free of social desirability bias. It exhibited positive correlations with measures of dominance-submissiveness, autonomy, extroversion, achieving tendency, and aggression, and negative correlations with measures of trait-anxiety and neuroticism
Aggression · Arousal · Big Five personality traits · Developmental psychology · Dominance (genetics) · Extraversion and introversion · Neuroticism · Personality · Pleasure · Temperament · Trait · Trait theory · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychological Testing and Assessment · Psychology · Social Psychology
Predicting adult temperament from minor physical anomalies
Analysis of personality measures in terms of basic dimensions of temperament
A Questionnaire Measure of Individual Differences in Child Stimulus Screening
Role of social desirability in personality testing for personnel selection
Pleasure-arousal-dominance
Basic Temperament Components of Loneliness, Shyness, and Conformity
A Guide to Graphic Design For Functional versus Experiential Ads
The Emotional Climate for Children as Inferred From Parental Attitudes
An analysis of fidgeting and associated individual differences
Relations among personality scales of aggression, violence, and empathy
Factorial composition of commonly used self-report depression inventories
Distinguishing anger and anxiety in terms of emotional response factors.
The Theory of the Estimation of Test Reliability
A new scale of social desirability independent of psychopathology.
The Development and Validation of Measures of Affiliative Tendency and Sensitivity To Rejection
A Questionnaire Measure of Individual Differences in Dominance-Submissiveness
A Questionnaire Measure of Individual Differences in Achieving Tendency
Evidence for a three-factor theory of emotions
Temperament and Development
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1978 - 2023 (46) |
| Highly cited | No |