The reliability and validity study of the Turkish version of the Children Behavior Questionnaire Short Form and to study the etiology of temperament for the children aged 3-6

Temperament is the complement of inborn traits that determine the way a child reacts to the world. Temperament is heritable, has biological bases and can mutate according to environment. Determining the temperament of the child and to arrange the environment accordingly will help to minimize the possible future developmental and psychological problems. In this study, to translate the Children Behavior Questionnaire Short Form into Turkish to be an instrument to define the temperament of the children aged 3-6 and to display the etiology of the children temperament is aimed87 children aged 3-6 were included in the study to analyse the reliability and validity of Turkish version of the Short Form of CBQ. Form was translated in to Turkish and filled twice with a week interval by the mothers of the participating children. Thereby, test-retest study was achieved. Turkish version of the form was concluded to be reliable and valid according to this analyseTo study the etiology of the temperament, 10 dizygotic and 7 monozygotic twins aged between 3 and 6 were included in the study. According to the study, temperament is showed to be heritable especially for the dimensions approach/positive participation, anger/frustration, fear, inhibitory control, shyness and smiling-laughter. When compared with the biological data, some dimensions of the temperament are affected by the biological factors. Especially, falling reactivity/soothability dimension of the temperament is strongly related to hormones. When, the relation between the environmental factors and temperament, it is observed that the environmental properties affect the temperament as independent of heredity.