Seattle Personality Questionnaire
Abstract: The Seattle Personality Questionnaire is a 44-item measure completed by the target child. This measure is designed to determine three dimensions of symptomatology (anxiety, conduct problems, and somatization), depression, school dislike, and a lie scale. The symptomatology and lie items were based on the Seattle Personality Questionnaire for Young School-Aged Children, which is a 50-item self-report personality questionnaire for children ages 6 through 10 (Kusche, Greenberg, and Beilke, 1988). The school dislike items were borrowed from two scales: School Loneliness (Asher, Hymel, & Renshaw, 1984, Asher & Wheeler, 1985) and School Sentiment (Ladd, 1990). Responses for all of the items are on a scale of 0 to 2, with 0=no, 1=yes, and 2=don't know/no response. There are eight subscales for this measure: Anxiety, Conduct Problems, Somatization, Depression, Lying, School Dislike, School Loneliness, and School Sentiment. All of these subscales are based on factor analysis or theoretically derived. Analysts should note that four of the scales were fairly normally distributed for both the control and the normative samples: Anxiety, Somatization, Depression, and Lying. Four scales were positively skewed for both samples: Conduct Problems, School Dislike, School Loneliness, and School Sentiment. In addition, the School Loneliness scale showed a slight positive kurtosis for both the control and the normative samples. 94% of the responses for both samples were between 0.0 and 2.0 (with 5.0 being the highest possible score for this scale).
Who Completed this Measure?: select one
Cohort 1 - Administrative History
- Year 01 | K | age 6
- Year 02 | grade 1 | age 7
- Year 03 | grade 2 | age 8
Cohort 2 - Administrative History
- Year 01 | K | age 6
- Year 02 | grade 1 | age 7
- Year 03 | grade 2 | age 8
Cohort 3 - Administrative History
- Year 01 | K | age 6
- Year 02 | grade 1 | age 7
- Year 03 | grade 2 | age 8
Technical Reports:
Raw Dataset Name: CyC
Scored Dataset Name: SPQySCc
Keywords:
Affective Behavior, Emotional Response, Psychosomatic, Self Esteem
Is this Measure Available for Public Use?: Yes
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SAS Code for Scale Creation:
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Measure Items and Scales:
| COHORT | Cohort Number |
| TCID | Child's Identification Number |
| C3CSP1 | Talk a Lot in Class |
| C3CSP2 | Feel Afraid a Lot |
| C3CSP3 | Worry What Other Children Say |
| C3CSP4 | Afraid to Try New Things |
| C3CSP5 | Hard to Make Friends at School |
| C3CSP6 | Lot of Aches and Pains |
| C3CSP7 | Think School is Fun |
| C3CSP8 | Worry Others May Not Like You |
| C3CSP9 | Like Everyone You Know |
| C3CSP10 | Have Kids to Play with at School |
| C3CSP11 | Take Things and Keep Them |
| C3CSP12 | Hard to Ask Join Game |
| C3CSP13 | Lot of Scary Dreams or Nightmares |
| C3CSP14 | Lot of Headaches |
| C3CSP15 | Kids at School Like You |
| C3CSP16 | Always Good |
| C3CSP17 | Like Your Teacher |
| C3CSP18 | Lot of Tummy Aches |
| C3CSP19 | Lot of Fights |
| C3CSP20 | Lonely at School |
| C3CSP21 | Ever Feel Mad |
| C3CSP22 | Teacher Gets Mad Too Much |
| C3CSP23 | Hard for You to Listen |
| C3CSP24 | Nice Things Happen at School |
| C3CSP25 | Tell a Lot of Lies |
| C3CSP26 | Feel Like Throwing Up |
| C3CSP27 | Argue a Lot with Other People |
| C3CSP28 | Unhappy at School |
| C3CSP29 | Worry What Others Think of You |
| C3CSP30 | Tease or Make Fun of Other Kids |
| C3CSP31 | Wish You Could Stay Home from School |
| C3CSP32 | Worry about Being Teased |
| C3CSP33 | Break Things on Purpose |
| C3CSP34 | Feel Unhappy a Lot |
| C3CSP35 | Feel Like Crying a Lot |
| C3CSP36 | Feel Upset about Things |
| C3CSP37 | Have Trouble Paying Attention |
| C3CSP38 | Feel You Do Things Wrong a Lot |
| C3CSP39 | Feel That Most Things Not Fun |
| C3CSP40 | Feel Sorry for Yourself |
| C3CSP41 | Have Trouble Falling/Staying Asleep |
| C3CSP42 | Feel Tired a Lot |
| C3CSP43 | Often Feel Like Not Eating |
| C3CSP44 | Want to be by Yourself a Lot |
| SITE | Study Site |
| SPQ3ANX | SPI Anxiety |
| SPQ3CON | SPI Conduct Problems |
| SPQ3SOM | SPI Somatization |
| SPQ3DEP | SPI Depression |
| SPQ3LIE | SPI Lie Scale |
| SPQ3SCD | SPI Sch. Dislike (Lonely+Sentiment) |
| SPQ3SCL | SPI School Loneliness |
| SPQ3SCS | SPI School Sentiment |