1. There is growing interest in the causes and consequences of animal temperaments. Temperament behaviours often have heritable components, but ecological variables can also affect them. Numerous variables are likely to differ between habitats, and these may interact to influence temperament behaviours. 2. Temperament behaviours may be correlated within populations (behavioural syndromes), alth...

BACKGROUND This study intended to determine whether certain traits of temperament are associated with former and current ADHD symptomatology in a non-clinical sample of 18 year old males. METHODS We performed a cross sectional descriptive study of 3280 men during the examination for military service. The investigation included a socio-demographic questionnaire, screening for substance abuse, ...

This study examines the construct validity of the revised version of the Strelau Temperament Inventory (STI-R) and the short scale (STI-RS) , which were introduced by Strelau, Angleitner, Bantelmann and Ruch (1990). Hypotheses about the relationship between the content scales of the STI-R, viz. Strength of Excitation (SE), Strength of Inhibition (SI) , and Mobility ( M O ) of CNSproperties, and...

Researchers have demonstrated that interviewer supportive behaviors positively affect children's abilities to provide information about their experiences in many circumstances, but there is some evidence supportiveness effects may be influenced by temperament. The associations among support, child temperament, and propensity disclose adult transgressions during free recall remain unclear. Child...

INTRODUCTION The risk of professional burnout is constituted by job-related as well as individual factors. The latter involve affective temperament, which influences the perception of job-related stress. The aim of the present study was to assess the affective temperament, the level of job stress and professional burnout, as well as the relationships between these variables, in public servants ...

BACKGROUND Human personality consists of two fundamental elements character and temperament. Character allays automatic and preconceptual emotional responses determined by temperament. However, the neurobiological basis of character and its interplay with temperament remain elusive. Here, we examined character-temperament interplay and explored the neural basis of character, with a particular f...

Accurate decoding of facial expressions is critical for human communication, particularly during infancy, before formal language has developed. Different facial emotions elicit distinct neural responses within the first months of life. However, there are broad individual differences in such responses, so that the same emotional expression can elicit different brain responses in different infant...

background: rhinoplasty is the most common cosmetic surgery which has been dramatically increasing in iran. currently, iran is ranked the first in the world in rhinoplasty. in the present study, we aimed to assess the character and temperament traits of the applicants referred to rhinoplasty surgeons in shiraz, southwest iran in 2015. methods: in this cross-sectional study, we recruited 500 par...

OBJECTIVE To investigate temperament-creativity relationships in euthymic bipolar (BP) and unipolar major depressive (MDD) patients, creative discipline controls (CC), and healthy controls (HC). METHODS 49 BP, 25 MDD, 32 CC, and 47 HC (all euthymic) completed three self-report temperament/personality measures: the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), the Temperament Evaluation of the...

Temperamental characteristics are important facets of child behavior and can be assessed and used for parent education and guidance by members of many professional groups: Clinical practice using information about temperament is dedicated to: 1)understanding of the importance of normal individuality in behavior in infants and children, and 2) application of information about temperament by pare...