[en] The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI; Cloninger, Przybeck, Svrakic, & Wetzel, 1994) is a self-questionnaire developed to assess the 7 dimensions of personality described by Cloninger et al. (1994) with a total of 29 subscales. In 1999, a revised version was proposed by Cloninger (TCI-R). In this study, we present psychometric properties of the TCI-R from 958 French-speaking participants of Belgium. Women exhibited higher scores for harm avoidance, reward dependence, and cooperativeness dimensions. The proposed factorial structure of 4 temperament dimensions and 3 character dimensions was confirmed. The TCI-R inventory had good test-retest reliabilities as well as good alpha coefficients. The addition of 3 new subscales to the original scale for Persistence has produced a very reliable dimension in the TCI-R.
Research center :
Centre de Neurosciences Comportementale et Cognitive
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Hansenne, Michel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psycho. de la personnalité et des différences individuelles
Delhez, Marie
Cloninger, C Robert
Language :
English
Title :
Psychometric properties of the temperament and character inventory-revised (TCI-R) in a Belgian sample.
Publication date :
2005
Journal title :
Journal of Personality Assessment
ISSN :
0022-3891
eISSN :
1532-7752
Publisher :
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, United States - New Jersey
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