Children's Personality Questionnaire
The Children's Personality Questionnaire (CPQ) measures 14 primary personality traits useful in understanding and evaluating a pre-adolescent's personal, social, and academic development. It provides a psychologically insightful understanding, as well as a precise, quantitative evaluation of those aspects of a child's personality that contribute to, or detract from, performance in school and social adjustment, both inside and outside the classroom.
It is primarily used to counsel pre-adolescents in school or clinical settings. The report reveals important information about academic achievement, leadership potential, and the tendency toward disciplinary problems.
The CPQ report also provides narrative interpretations relative to traits such as creativity, emotional stability, self-concept level, excitability, and apprehension, as well as derived scores and predictions for extraversion, anxiety, and other broad trait patterns.
The CPQ employs the same personality scales that are measured by the IPAT personality instruments for children of other ages - the Early School Personality Questionnaire for ages 6-8 and the 16PF Adolescent Personality Questionnaire for ages 11-22. Thus, meaningful developmental records can be kept, and therapeutic gain evaluated. |