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measure Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (Lab-TAB)
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: Observation Available measurements: Generation R 3 yearsThe Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (Lab-TAB) is a standardized observational assessment tool that is used to study temperament dimensions in young children through a series of episodes that mimic everyday situations.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Impossible puzzle
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: Observation Available measurements: Generation R 3 yearsIn the Impossible puzzle paradigm, children are instructed to assemble a wooden puzzle in which one piece is intentionally made too big, so that it would never fit. The observations are coded to score children's persistence on the task (i.e., working on the puzzle, trying to make the major piece fit).Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Delay of gratification task
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: Observation Available measurements: Generation R 3 yearsThe Delay of Gratification task aims to measure self-regulation by presenting the child with the choice between a small reward in the short-term and a larger reward in the long-term. The classic implementation of the Delay of Gratification task is the Marshmallow experiment, in which a child is presented with one marshmallow right now and is instructed...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Language Development Survey (LDS)
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Generation R 2.5 yearsThe Language Development Survey (LDS) assesses receptive and expressive language development. It is a 310-word vocabulary checklist, e.g., ‘Apple’ and ‘Tortoise’, with words arranged within 14 semantic categories. Parents are asked to identify the words that the child uses spontaneously.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Emotion recognition tasks
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Generation R 3 yearsChildren's ability to recognize facial emotion (happiness, sadness, anger, and fear) was assessed during a visit to the research centre at the age of 3. The assessment involved a nonverbal emotion-matching task and a verbal emotion-labelling task. In the emotion-matching task, children had to match a face expressing a specific emotion with one of two...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Child Development Inventory (CDI) - Motor development
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Generation R 6 months 1 year 1.5 years 2 years 4 yearsThe Child Development Inventory (CDI) was used to assess fine and gross motor development. The fine motor development scale measures eye-hand coordination - from picking up objects to scribbling and drawing. The gross motor development scale measures walking, running, climbing, jumping, riding, balance, and coordination. Each scale consists of 30 yes/no...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Child Development Inventory (CDI) - Receptive and expressive language
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Generation R 1 year 1.5 yearsThe Child Development Inventory (CDI) was used to assess receptive and expressive language using age-appropriate items from the expressive language scale and the language comprehension scale. The scales ask caregivers to indicate on yes/no-items what sounds or words the child produces or understands.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Free Play Observation
Study: L-CID Mode of collection: Observation Available measurements: Early Childhood Cohort ECC - T1 ECC - T2 ECC - T3
Middle Childhood Cohort MCC - T1 MCC - T2 MCC - T3The Free Play Task aims to measure the way parents and their children interact, by observing them during free play without instructions.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Language Environment Analysis (LENA)
Study: L-CID Mode of collection: Recording Available measurements: Early Childhood Cohort ECC - T1 ECC - T2 ECC - T3
Middle Childhood Cohort MCC - T1 MCC - T2 MCC - T3The Language Environment Analysis (LENA) aims to assess caregiver speech and child vocalizations by using a device that records sounds from the child's environment.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Prosocial Cyberball Game (PCG) - Owl task
Study: L-CID Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Early Childhood Cohort ECC - T1 ECC - T2 ECC - T3 ECC - T4The Prosocial Cyberball Game (PCG) measures prosocial behavior related to empathy when seeing that someone is being socially excluded. In the game, children play a (digital) ball-tossing game with peers. In the first block of the game, all children typically receive the ball an equal amount of time. In the second block of the game, one of the peers is...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Sally-Ann Task
Study: L-CID Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Early Childhood Cohort ECC - T1 ECC - T2 ECC - T3 ECC - T4The Sally-Ann Task aims to measure a child's ability for Theory of Mind by asking them in which basket they think Sally will look for her ball, after Anne moved the ball from one basket into another while Sally was away.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Donating Task - Stickers
Study: L-CID Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Early Childhood Cohort ECC - T1 ECC - T2 ECC - T3 ECC - T4The Donating Task - Stickers aims to measure costly prosocial behavior by giving a child the option to donate (some of) their stickers to another child or keep them for themselves. The child is told that the other same-sex child will participate in the research tomorrow. This other child will complete the same tasks, but they will not have any stickers....Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
Study: L-CID Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Early Childhood Cohort ECC - T1 ECC - T2 ECC - T3 ECC - T4 ECC - T5 ECC - T6 ECC - T6-Covid
Middle Childhood Cohort MCC - T1 MCC - T2 MCC - T3 MCC - T4 MCC - T5 MCC - T5-Covid MCC - T6 MCC - T7The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief questionnaire for assessing the psychosocial adjustment of children and adolescents. Versions are available for parents and teachers of 4- to 16-year-olds, and a nearly identical version can be completed independently by 11- to 16-years olds. The SDQ differs from related instruments in that it...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Cheating - Ball Throwing
Study: L-CID Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Early Childhood Cohort ECC - T1The Cheating - Ball Throwing task aims to measure behavioral control by giving the child an opportunity to cheat while throwing a ball. During the game, children have to stay behind a line and can throw each ball only once. After the instructions, children practice the game with the research assistant. After the practice session, the research assistant...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI)
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 years 6 years
Child and Adolescent 9 years 12 yearsThe Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) is a measure of dispositional empathy that takes as its starting point the notion that empathy consists of a set of separate but related constructs. The instrument contains four seven-item subscales, each tapping into a separate facet of empathy.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 years 6 years
Child and Adolescent 9 years 12 yearsThe Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief questionnaire for assessing the psychosocial adjustment of children and adolescents. Versions are available for parents and teachers of 4- to 16-year-olds, and a nearly identical version can be completed independently by 11- to 16-years olds. The SDQ differs from related instruments in that it...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Gaze Cueing experiment
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Eyetracking Available measurements: Baby and Child 5 months 10 months 3 years 6 years
Child and Adolescent 9 years 12 yearsThe Gaze Cuing experiment is an eye-tracking task that measures a participant's sensitivity to another person's gaze direction as a possible cue to predict the location of a next event. Sensitivity to gaze direction is taken as a marker of social competence. In the Social Gaze Task, children see a face with direct gaze, followed by an eye gaze shift to...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Infant Behavior Questionnaire Revised - Short Form (IBQ-R-SF)
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Baby and Child 5 months 10 months 3 years 6 yearsThe Infant Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ) and Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised (IBQ-R) were designed to measure temperament in infants between the ages of 3 and 12 months. The IBQ assesses dimensions of temperament, such as activity level, soothability, fear, distress to limitations, smiling and laughter, and duration of orienting, among others. The...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Delay of gratification task
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: Observation Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 yearsThe Delay of Gratification task aims to measure self-regulation by presenting the child with the choice between a small reward in the short-term and a larger reward in the long-term. The classic implementation of the Delay of Gratification task is the Marshmallow experiment, in which a child is presented with one marshmallow right now and is instructed...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Comprehensive Early Childhood Parenting Questionnaire (CECPAQ)
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Baby and Child 5 months 10 months 3 years 6 yearsThe Comprehensive Early Childhood Parenting Questionnaire (CECPAQ) was developed to assess the behavior of parents towards their young child (1-5 years). The CECPAQ is a parent report measure of commonly occurring behaviors in five domains of parenting (i.e., support, stimulation, structure, harsh discipline, and positive discipline).Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024