The Child Temperament Profile maps your child's inborn style across 12 dimensions of temperament — intensity, sensitivity, adaptability, activity, and more — and translates the pattern into one of eight profiles, with concrete strengths and the support that fits them. LBL-original, transparent, and grounded in the goodness-of-fit tradition. It describes a child; it does not diagnose one.
Think about your child over the last few months — not their best day or their hardest day, but their everyday self. There are no good or bad answers; every temperament has its strengths. Each slider updates instantly, and nothing is submitted or stored — the whole calculation runs in your browser.
The figures below are yours, free — the radar and all 12 scores. The full interpretation — what each pattern means for your child, and what to do with it — is in the report.
The Child Temperament Profile is an LBL-original 48-item parent-report assessment that maps a child's temperament across 12 dimensions and summarizes the pattern as one of eight descriptive profiles. The framework draws on three research traditions: the goodness-of-fit model from the New York Longitudinal Study (Thomas & Chess), the psychobiological model of temperament and effortful control (Rothbart), and behavioral-inhibition research on cautious and bold temperaments (Kagan).
This page documents everything: how the 12 dimensions are defined, the exact wording of all 48 items and how each is scored, how the dimension scores are computed, and the decision rules that assign your child's profile. The instrument is LBL-original and in active development; formal psychometric validation against established temperament questionnaires is planned but not yet complete.
Temperament is not destiny, and it is not a problem to be fixed. The goal of this assessment is goodness of fit — helping the demands of a child's environment match the child's natural style, so that the same trait that looks like a struggle in one setting can become a strength in another.
LBL-CTP framing — synthesizing the goodness-of-fit tradition (Thomas & Chess, 1977), the psychobiological model of temperament (Rothbart, 2001), and behavioral-inhibition research (Kagan, 1984).Each dimension is measured with four items — 48 items in total. All items use a 0–10 scale anchored from “Not like my child” to “Very much like my child.” Some items are reverse-scored (marked below): for those, a high rating lowers the dimension score, so that a higher dimension score always means “more of this trait.” The wording below is LBL-original.
Each item is answered on a 0–10 slider. For a normal item the raw value is used as-is; for a reverse-scored item the value is flipped (10 − raw). A dimension's score is the mean of its four (direction-corrected) items, rescaled to 0–100:
dimension_score = ( mean(corrected_items) / 10 ) × 100
A score of 50 is the conceptual midpoint of the dimension; 0–40 reads as the lower pole, 40–60 as moderate, and 60–100 as the higher pole. Both poles are described in temperament-neutral language — high activity and low activity are both legitimate ways for a child to be.
The eight profiles are pattern-based summaries of the 12-dimension shape — built to help you recognize your child's style at a glance, not to sort children into boxes. They are descriptive heuristics, not categories of children. Each profile carries a weight vector across the dimensions; the match score is the weighted sum of how far each dimension sits from the midpoint:
match = Σ ( weightd × ( scored − 50 ) / 50 )
The highest-scoring profile becomes your child's primary profile, and the second-highest is shown as a secondary tilt. When the top two are within a small margin of each other, the result is explicitly described as a blend — because most children genuinely are. The weight vectors for all eight profiles are shown in full below.
Intellectual honesty requires naming the limits of any short parent-report instrument.
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The Child Temperament Profile is LBL-original — its items and profiles were written from scratch and do not reproduce any existing questionnaire. The conceptual framework synthesizes the following research traditions:
Concise answers to the most common questions about this assessment, what it measures, and how to read your result.
No. The Child Temperament Profile describes your child's natural style — it does not screen for or diagnose autism, ADHD, anxiety, or any condition. Temperament and clinical conditions can look similar from the outside but are different things.
If you have concerns about your child's development or wellbeing, talk to your pediatrician or a licensed child psychologist. This tool does not replace a professional evaluation.
The items are written for parents and caregivers thinking about a child roughly between toddlerhood and the early teen years. You'll choose an age band before you start.
Temperament is observable from infancy, but it expresses differently as a child grows — a toddler and a ten-year-old with the same underlying style will show it in different behaviors.
You both are. Children often show different sides of themselves to different people and in different settings. If you and a co-parent each take it, comparing the two profiles is genuinely useful — the places you disagree are often the places worth talking about.
Yes. Temperament has a stable core, but how it shows up shifts as self-regulation matures and as your child's world changes. Re-taking every several months — especially after a calm stretch rather than a hard week — gives a fuller picture than any single snapshot.
Yes. The entire assessment runs in your browser. Your answers about your child are never sent to our servers. If you choose the optional premium PDF, only the computed profile needed to generate the report is processed for that purpose.