EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT BISHOP AND HERTENSTEIN A CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE OF TEMPERAMENT QUESTIONNAIRE

This study examined the factor structure of scores on the English-language version of the Structure of Temperament Questionnaire. Scores from 300 college students were sub-jected to maximum-likelihood confirmatory factor analyses (CFA). A first-order model consisting of eight correlated factors and a second-order model consisting of two super-ordinate factors and eight first-order factors were tested. The results of the analyses indi-cated that the first-order correlated model was the best fit for the data. The English-language version of the Structure of Temperament Questionnaire can be used to measure eight correlated yet theoretically unique dimensions of temperament