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Relations Among Observed and Parent Report Measures of Infant Temperament at Infant-Age Six Months Abstract Temperament, conceptualized here as an infant's tendency across time, situation, context, and relationship to respond with relatively positive, negative, strong, or weak levels of affectivity, is a difficult construct to measure. While recent research suggests there is both a subjective and an objective component to parent-reported temperament, its subjectivity is still considered to outweigh any objectivity it might have. Assessment of infant temperament by trained observers may alleviate some of the problems inherent in parent-reports, particularly the subjective component, however such observations have been criticized for their restricted range of naturalistic conditions and necessarily brief duration. It may be valuable to view parent-reports of temperament in conjunction with laboratory or home observations by trained observers. The combination of such alternative measures could help to evaluate the objective validity of parental reports, as well as to provide evidence as to how accurate parents actually are as reporters of their own children's temperament. The purpose of this study was to examine the relations between Rothbart's (1978) Infant Behavior Questionnaire, and a relatively new laboratory assessment procedure (Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery, Lab-TAB) developed by Goldsmith and Rothbart (1988). Results indicated three of the six IBQ scale scores were related to two of the four Lab-TAB composite scores.
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