The Baxter child personality test

Abstract

Causes of behavior not conductive to the mental health and growth of children are important to ascertain. In order to overcome many of the difficulties common in rating scales, a test containing both questions for the child and questions for the mother was developed by the author. The test was administered to 49 boys and 51 girls in Denver. Both the girls' and the boys' forms possessed high reliability (split-half method, r = .91) and high validity ( r with parents' ratings = .81). The mother's test also showed high reliability ( r = .92) and high validity ( r = .83). Though the test correlated more highly with MA (.56) than CA (.24), norms are presented by age levels, from 4 to 13 years. No sex differences were apparent. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)