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Can Parents and Teachers Provide a Reliable and Valid Report of Behavioral Inhibition?
Author(s) -
Bishop Gillian,
Spence Susan H.,
Mcdonald Casey
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1046/j.1467-8624.2003.00645.x
Subject(s) - psychology , temperament , developmental psychology , internal consistency , behavioral inhibition , gaze , confirmatory factor analysis , reliability (semiconductor) , correlation , clinical psychology , audiology , psychometrics , social psychology , personality , psychiatry , anxiety , power (physics) , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , psychoanalysis , medicine , geometry , economy , economics , service (business)
Reliability and validity of parent and teacher report of behavioral inhibition (BI) was examined among children aged 3 to 5 years. Confirmatory factor analysis supported 6 correlated factors reflecting specific BI contexts, each loading on a single, higher order factor of BI. Internal consistency was acceptable, with moderate stability over 1 year and strong correlation with a brief inhibition subscale from a temperament questionnaire. Children who were rated by mothers and teachers as high BI took longer to initiate contact with a stranger, spoke less often and for shorter periods, and required more prompting to elicit speech compared with low‐BI peers in a simulated stranger interaction task. Father report of BI was significantly associated with mean duration of speech and eye gaze.