Childrens Personality Questionaire

The Children's Personality Questionnaire (CPQ) is a standardized, self-report personality measure for children ages 8-12. It can be used to measures their personal, social, and academic development and aspects of a their personality that mediate performance in school and social adjustment both inside and outside the classroom.

As the findings supplement standard academic aptitude measures they can be used to increase the accuracy of academic achievement prediction and have been used to assess candidates for scholarships, and to assist school and occupational counselors in career guidance.

The questionnaire measures 14 dimensions of personality taken from a factor analysis of personality performed by Cattell in 1950.

Format
There are four forms to choose from A,B,C and D. Each form contains 140 items, ten for each dimension.

==Administration= The questionnaire is administered without a time limit and can be broken up into two sessions.

Scoring
Answer sheets can be machine-scored by the publisher or hand-scored by the test administrator. Scores are presented as normalized stens, standard deviation stens, and percentile ranks.

Norms
Different norms are applied to boys and girls as several personality factors have significantly different means between the groups.

Reliability
Test-retest reliability after a one-week interval for each of the 14 factors on the various test forms ranges from .28-.87 with *most coefficients hovering around .50. Between-forms reliability shows that forms A and B are more equivalent than forms C and D and that using two forms of the test rather than one increases its reliability.