Inventario Infanto-Juvenil de Temperamento y Carácter

The Junior Temperament and Character Inventory was developed to assess the temperament dimensions (novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence and persistence) and the character dimensions (selfdirectedness, cooperativeness, fantasy and spirituality) in children and adolescents based upon Cloninger´s model of personality. The objective of the study is to validate a Spanish version of the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory in a child population. The sample was 827 children from three schools from the Region of Madrid. Internal consistency, measured using Cronbach α, was acceptable for the majority of the dimensions (above 0.60). The reliability test-retest was evaluated in an independent sample of 61 children who were given the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory on two occasions, four weeks apart. Correlations among dimensions were moderate to high. The Spanish version of the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory could be useful in clinical practice and in psycho-pedagogical programs.