The Portuguese version of the Retrospective Self-Report of Inhibition: A psychometric analysis of RSRI in an Adolescent Community Sample

Abstract

Behavioural inhibition is defined as a consistent restraint in response to unfamiliar social or nonsocial stimuli. Due to the unequivocal importance of behavioural inhibition assessment during childhood and to a better understanding of its role in development of psychopathology, Reznick and colleagues developed the Retrospective Self-Report Inhibition (RSRI) scale composed by 30 items that are aimed to retrospectively assess behavioural inhibition during childhood (between the 1st and 6th school years). The aim of this manuscript is to confirm the RSRI psychometric properties in a Portuguese population and to investigate this instrument utility as a behavioural inhibition during childhood. The first study, conducted in an adolescent sample (n=296) with ages between 12 and 18 years old (...)

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v24i1.298