Tool licence:
This assessment tool is free for personal use. For COMMERCIAL use, please contact us.
Canine Frustration Insights assessment tool.
The Canine Frustration Questionnaire (CFQ) is the first validated, reliable tool to assess frustration tendencies in dogs using an owner questionnaire.
Key validations:
- Contribution of frustration tendencies assessment
- Response to interventions monitoring
- To help select appropriate working dogs
- Screening of shelter dogs
Usage
1. As a clinical tool when assessing the likely contribution of frustration tendencies in dogs with behaviour problems.
2. To monitor response to interventions purported to improve frustration tolerance, both in the individual, and also as a research tool when assessing potential treatment strategies for such problems.
3. As a tool to select appropriate working dogs where frustration tendencies may be important to success/failure.
4. In the screening of shelter dogs at the time of relinquishment to predict their ability to cope in that environment.
The tool
CFQ is a 21 item questionnaire using a 5 point Likert scale (plus a N/A answer).
There is an associated scoring sheet and mean/standard deviation scores, producing an overall questionnaire score for each dogs, plus 5 sub-scores representing different facets of frustration tendencies.
Product sheet:
To download a PDF product sheet, click here.