Berkeley Puppet Interview: Administration and scoring system manuals

Summary

The original administration and scoring manuals for the Berkeley Puppet Interview, developed by Ablow and Measelle at the University of California, Berkeley. The BPI uses two identical hand puppets (tan puppy dogs named Iggy and Ziggy) who make opposing first-person statements about themselves and then ask the child which one is more like them. Children may answer verbally, by pointing, or through other natural responses, and an extensive rule-based coding system captures that range of response styles. The instrument spans family relationships and processes, academic and social self-perceptions, clinical symptomatology, and Big Five personality factors, and is designed for children roughly ages 4 to 8. The manuals define the administration protocol and the coding rules that every subsequent BPI validation study relies on; the first psychometric evaluation was published five years later by Measelle, Ablow, Cowan and Cowan (1998).

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Publication note

Unpublished instrument manual, not a journal article. It is the primary source for BPI administration and coding and is cited by every study in this library that uses the method. The linked page is the Developmental Sociobiology Lab at the University of Oregon, which Measelle directs and which distributes the instrument.

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University of California, Berkeley

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Jennifer C. Ablow, Jeffrey R. Measelle (1993). Berkeley Puppet Interview: Administration and scoring system manuals.