The Revised Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ 18) for infants and preschool children with and without risks or delays in Hungary, Taiwan and the US
The Revised Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ 18) for infants and preschool children with and without risks or delays in Hungary, Taiwan and the US

Summary/Abstract: Mastery motivation is an important concept in child development shown by persistence and affect when attempting to solve challenging problems. The Revised Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ 18) provides a parent or caregiver rating of a young child’s responses to challenge. This paper describes and compares parent’s DMQ 18 ratings of 503 children aged 6-months to 5-years in samples from Hungary, Taiwan, and the US who were developing typically, were at-risk due to prematurity, or were developmentally delayed. Good reliability and validity were found for the persistence scales. There were modest correlations between age and the positive DMQ scales in Hungary but not Taiwan. There were few gender differences, and few parent education correlations with DMQ ratings by either parents or teachers. However, parents of infants born preterm rated them lower on gross motor persistence and competence; and parents rated children with developmental delay much lower than children developing typically. Hungarian parents rated their children higher on gross motor persistence and competence but lower on shame than parents from Taiwan. Most of the results are consistent with but extend those in the literature. Implications for the use of DMQ 18 are discussed.

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