Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (Research Triangle Institute, 2002), this study examined the impact of corporal punishment (CP) on children's behavior problems. Longitudinal analyses were specified that controlled for covarying contextual and parenting variables and that partialed child effects. The res...

Background. Support has been found for high harm avoidance as general vulnerability trait for depression and decreased self-directedness (SD) as central state-related personality change. Additional personality characteristics could be present in psychotic depression (PD). Increased noradrenergic activation in PD predicts the involvement of reward dependence (RD). Methods. The data during the ac...

Sociality is believed to have evolved as a strategy for animals to cope with their environments. Yet the genetic basis of sociality remains unclear. Here we provide evidence that social network tendencies are heritable in a gregarious primate. The tendency for rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta, to be tied affiliatively to others via connections mediated by their social partners - analogous to fri...

Historians of medicine, childhood and paediatrics have often assumed that early modern doctors neither treated children, nor adapted their medicines to suit the peculiar temperaments of the young. Through an examination of medical textbooks and doctors' casebooks, this article refutes these assumptions. It argues that medical authors and practising doctors regularly treated children, and were c...

Individuals with choleric temperaments easily get angry and can be problematic if not expressed appropriately. The purpose of this study was to identify gender differences in anger expressions among secondary school students. Respondents were students four states the Northern region Malaysia. A total 3348 involved, including 1,800 males 1,548 females. aged between 13 16 randomly selected from 2...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the social distancing resulting thereof are having a great impact on psychological well-being. Studies investigating resilience found that it impacts mental health during crises. This study aimed to evaluate influence of pre-crisis temperament in individuals with bipolar disorder COVID-19 pandemic. An online survey was conducted Austria between Ap...

Apart from providing a haven, home serves also as place where people can develop their personalities and temperaments. Traditions within families are an often-unseen force that has profound effect on people. In this article, the authors explore meaning value of family traditional inheritance in current context what manifestations may occur. After reviewing history characteristics ancestral shri...

Music is sound: audible, unique, ephemeral. For music composed before the advent of electronic recording a century and quarter ago, musical texts — unique arrangements symbols by which represented in visible form are our principal evidence for how that sounded when it was created. But Western past preserved not necessarily accurate representations they record. Although make up notation have rem...