The Infant Version of the Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (Lab-TAB): Measurement Properties and Implications for Concepts of Temperament. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We describe large-sample research using the Infant Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (Lab-TAB; Goldsmith and Rothbart, 1996) in 1,076 infants at 6 and 12 months of age. The Lab-TAB was designed to assess temperament dimensions through a series of episodes that mimic everyday situations. Our goal is to provide guidelines for scoring Lab-TAB episodes to derive temperament composites. We also present a set of analyses examining mean differences and stability of temperament in early infancy, gender differences in infant temperament, as well as a validation of Lab-TAB episodes and composites with parent reported Infant Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ; Rothbart, 1981) scales. In general, laboratory observed temperament was only modestly related to parent reported temperament. However, temperament measures were significantly stable across time and several gender differences that align with previous research emerged. In sum, the Lab-TAB usefully assesses individual differences in infant emotionality.

published proceedings

  • Front Psychol

altmetric score

  • 0.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Planalp, E. M., Van Hulle, C., Gagne, J. R., & Goldsmith, H. H.

citation count

  • 44

complete list of authors

  • Planalp, Elizabeth M||Van Hulle, Carol||Gagne, Jeffrey R||Goldsmith, H Hill

publication date

  • January 2017