Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Allan, Nicholas Paul
Author's Email Address	allan@psy.fsu.edu
URN	etd-06112010-132238
Title	A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Effortful Control: Comparing a Two Factor Model Consisting of Hot and Cool Latent Variables and a General Domain Model
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Psychology, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Christopher J Lonigan Committee Chair Mark Licht Committee Member Ralph Radach Committee Member
Keywords	Temperament Emergent Literacy Preschool
Date of Defense	2010-04-14
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Effortful control is an important developmental construct that has been associated with socio-emotional growth, academic performance, and psychopathological presentation. It is defined as the ability to execute goal directed behavior to inhibit or delay a prepotent response in favor of a subdominant response. The possibility that effortful control is comprised of multiple subordinate constructs can be presumed from extant research. The present study was conducted to determine whether tasks designed to measure effortful control can be described by hot (affectively salient) and cool (affectively neutral) dimensions, or is best understood as a single construct. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that effortful control is best conceived of as unitary factor.
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