Psychometric Validation of the Greek Version of the Scale “Temper Loss” of the Questionnaire “Multidimensional Assessment Profile of Disruptive Behavior (MAP-DB)”
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Translation Procedure
2.2. Participants and Procedures
2.3. Ethical Considerations
2.4. Measures
3. Results
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Sex of Children N (%) | |
Males | 239 (59.8) |
Females | 161 (40.3) |
Sex of Parents N (%) | |
Males | 64 (16.0) |
Females | 336 (84.0) |
Age of Children (years) | |
Median (IQR) | 4.0 (1.5) |
Mean (SD) | 4.1 (0.8) |
Age of Parents (years) | |
Median (IQR) | 36.0 (9.0) |
Mean (SD) | 36.6 (5.4) |
Parents’ Educational Status N (%) | |
Until Upper Secondary School (Lyceum) | 77 (19.3) |
Bachelor | 299 (74.8) |
MSc/PhD | 24 (6.0) |
Parents’ Marital Status N (%) | |
Married | 315 (78.8) |
Separated | 45 (11.3) |
Divorced | 37 (9.3) |
Death of one or both parents | 3 (0.8) |
Parents’ Nationality N (%) | |
Greek | 328 (82.0) |
Albanian | 50 (12.5) |
Bulgarian | 17 (4.3) |
Other | 5 (1.3) |
Parents’ Work Status N (%) | |
Employed | 320 (80.0) |
Unemployed | 51 (12.8) |
Part time job | 27 (6.8) |
Other | 2 (0.5) |
Subscales Scores | Mean (SD) |
---|---|
CBCL–Emotional Reactive | 60.7 (9.4) |
CBCL–Anxious/Depressed | 53.1 (4.5) |
CBCL–Somatic Complaints | 54.5 (5.4) |
CBCL-Withdrawn | 51.8 (3.5) |
CBCL–Sleep Problems | 50.3 (1.1) |
CBCL–Attention Problems | 55.8 (7.5) |
CBCL–Aggression Behavior | 58.4 (10.5) |
MAP-DB A (Temper of loss) | 59.5 (32.1) |
Temper Loss | Item-Total Correlations | |
---|---|---|
10. Have difficulty calming down when angry | 0.864 | 0.835 |
14. Become frustrated easily | 0.786 | 0.747 |
17. Get extremely angry | 0.832 | 0.829 |
25. Yell angrily at someone | 0.554 | 0.580 |
31. Stamp feet or hold breath during a temper tantrum | 0.769 | 0.770 |
35. Lose temper or have a tantrum when frustrated, angry, or upset | 0.805 | 0.771 |
36. Lose temper or have a tantrum when tired, hungry, or sick | 0.770 | 0.727 |
42. Lose temper or have a tantrum to get something s/he wanted | 0.872 | 0.836 |
44. Act irritable | 0.770 | 0.755 |
46. Lose temper or have a tantrum during daily routines | 0.771 | 0.748 |
49. Break or destroy things during a temper tantrum | 0.597 | 0.627 |
51. Have a temper tantrum, fall-out, or melt-down | 0.938 | 0.925 |
57. Stay angry for a long time | 0.855 | 0.827 |
58. Have a temper tantrum lasting >5 min. | 0.922 | 0.909 |
63. Lose temper or have a tantrum with other adults | 0.773 | 0.734 |
64. Lose temper or have a tantrum with parents | 0.852 | 0.834 |
67. Keep on having a temper tantrum even when you tried to help calm down | 0.849 | 0.837 |
72. Have a hot or explosive temper | 0.842 | 0.820 |
74. Have a temper tantrum until exhausted | 0.835 | 0.839 |
75. Have a short fuse | 0.848 | 0.837 |
77. Lose temper or have a tantrum “out of the blue” | 0.842 | 0.844 |
81. Hit, bite, or kick during a temper tantrum | 0.577 | 0.599 |
% of Variance | 64.405 | - |
Eigenvalues | 14.169 | - |
Alpha of scale | 0.970 | - |
Parent’s Age | Child’s Age | Emotional Reactive | Anxious/ Depressed | Somatic Complaints | Withdrawn | Sleep Problems | Attention Problems | Aggressive Behavior | Temper Loss | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Parent’s age | 1.000 | |||||||||
Child’s age | 0.233 ** | 1.000 | ||||||||
Emotional Reactive | 0.100 ** | −0.092 | 1.000 | |||||||
Anxious/ Depressed | 0.074 | −0.108 * | 0.785 ** | 1.000 | ||||||
Somatic Complaints | 0.035 | −0.133 ** | 0.696 ** | 0.685 ** | 1.000 | |||||
Withdrawn | −0.019 | −0.097 | 0.469 ** | 0.441 ** | 0.469 ** | 1.000 | ||||
Sleep problems | 0.013 | −0.051 | 0.365 ** | 0.403 ** | 0.468 ** | 0.265 ** | 1.000 | |||
Attention problems | 0.017 | −0.105 * | 0.674 ** | 0.686 ** | 0.830 ** | 0.390 ** | 0.361 ** | 1.000 | ||
Aggressive behavior | 0.073 | −0.100 * | 0.842 ** | 0.769 ** | 0.778 ** | 0.556 ** | 0.444 ** | 0.707 ** | 1.000 | |
Temper loss | 0.080 | −0.014 | 0.441 ** | 0.376 ** | 0.293 ** | 0.258 ** | 0.171 ** | 0.299 ** | 0.406 ** | 1.000 |
Categories | Temper of Loss | |
---|---|---|
Sex of children Mean (SD) | Males | 50.8 (24.6) |
Females | 42.4 (26.3) | |
p-Value | 0.001 | |
Sex of parents Mean (SD) | Males | 60.2 (24.8) |
Females | 45.0 (25.0) | |
p-Value | <0.0001 | |
Age of children (years) | Spearman rho | −0.014 |
p-Value | 0.785 | |
Age of parents (years) | Spearman rho | 0.080 |
p-Value | 0.115 | |
Parents’ Marital Status Mean (SD) | Married | 45.9 (24.9) |
Separated | 54.1 (25.9) | |
Divorced | 49.3 (29.6) | |
Death of one or both parents | 81.3 (0.6) | |
p-Value | 0.011 | |
Parents’ Educational status Mean (SD) | Until Upper Secondary School (Lyceum) | 52.0 (23.1) |
Bachelor | 46.3 (25.8) | |
MSc/PhD | 45.0 (29.7) | |
p-Value | 0.404 | |
Parents’ nationality Mean (SD) | Greek | 44.7 (25.9) |
Albanian | 59.2 (21.9) | |
Bulgarian | 60.8 (15.9) | |
Other | 63.2 (22.6) | |
p-Value | <0.0001 | |
Parents’ work status Mean (SD) | Employee | 47.1 (25.6) |
Unemployed | 51.9 (25.8) | |
Part time job | 43.0 (25.3) | |
Other | 24.5 (9.1) | |
p-Value | 0.236 |
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Micha, M.; Makris, G.; Michou, M.; Kanaka-Gantenbein, C.; Wakschlag, L.; Pervanidou, P. Psychometric Validation of the Greek Version of the Scale “Temper Loss” of the Questionnaire “Multidimensional Assessment Profile of Disruptive Behavior (MAP-DB)”. Children 2022, 9, 1328. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091328
Micha M, Makris G, Michou M, Kanaka-Gantenbein C, Wakschlag L, Pervanidou P. Psychometric Validation of the Greek Version of the Scale “Temper Loss” of the Questionnaire “Multidimensional Assessment Profile of Disruptive Behavior (MAP-DB)”. Children. 2022; 9(9):1328. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091328
Chicago/Turabian StyleMicha, Maria, Gerasimos Makris, Maria Michou, Christina Kanaka-Gantenbein, Lauren Wakschlag, and Panagiota Pervanidou. 2022. "Psychometric Validation of the Greek Version of the Scale “Temper Loss” of the Questionnaire “Multidimensional Assessment Profile of Disruptive Behavior (MAP-DB)”" Children 9, no. 9: 1328. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091328