The revised Temperament and Character Inventory: normative data by sex and age from a Spanish normal randomized sample.

ABSTRACT: Objectives. The psychometric properties regarding sex and age for the revised version of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-R) and its derived short version, the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-140), were evaluated with a randomized sample from the community. Methods. A randomized sample of 367 normal adult subjects from a Spanish municipality, who were representative of the general population based on sex and age, participated in the current study. Descriptive statistics and internal consistency according to α coefficient were obtained for all of the dimensions and facets. T-tests and univariate analyses of variance, followed by Bonferroni tests, were conducted to compare the distributions of the TCI-R dimension scores by age and sex. Results. On both the TCI-R and TCI-

SUBMITTER: Gutierrez-Zotes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4690388 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature