conclusions temperaments can provide a basis to classify psychiatric disorders. psychiatric disorders can be placed in a spectrum based on temperaments. results four groups of temperaments were identified: high active, high flexible; high active, low flexible; low active, low flexible; and low active, high flexible. when temperament deteriorates personality, non-psychotic, and psychotic psychia...

BACKGROUND Child temperament is a measure of an individual's behavioral tendencies. The primary objective of this study was to examine whether child temperament modified the overweight risk associated with parent feeding behaviors and child eating behaviors. METHODS A sample of predominantly African American, Midwest families (N = 120) recruited from four metropolitan primary care clinics par...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the contribution of early childhood temperamental constructs corresponding to 2 subtypes of general negative emotionality-fearful distress (unadaptable temperament) and irritable distress (fussy-difficult temperament)-to later anxiety in a nationally representative sample. METHOD Using multiple linear regression analyses, we tested the hypothesis that caregiver-report...

1. Historical Perspective 2. The Concept of Individual Differences and Main Categories to Describe Them 2.1. The Psychology of Individual Differences 2.2. Trait as the Basic Category for Describing Individual Differences 3. Temperament as a Component of Personality 3.1. Founders of Contemporary Research on Temperament 3.1.1. Eysenck’s Biological Theory of Psychoticism, Extraversion, and Neuroti...

We describe large-sample research using the Infant Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (Lab-TAB; Goldsmith and Rothbart, 1996) in 1,076 infants at 6 and 12 months of age. The Lab-TAB was designed to assess temperament dimensions through a series of episodes that mimic everyday situations. Our goal is to provide guidelines for scoring Lab-TAB episodes to derive temperament composites. We a...

Much is known about predictors of risky sexual behaviors in young adults. Little is known; however, about the contribution of temperament and how temperament interacts with context to influence sexual risk intentions and actual behaviors. Since intentions are closely linked to behavior, knowing how temperament influences these decisions is important in planning interventions. The purpose of thi...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine whether children who stutter (CWS) and typically developing children (TDC) differ from each other on composite temperament factors or on individual temperament scales. METHODS Participants consisted of 116 age and gender-matched CWS and TDC (3.04-8.11). Temperament was assessed with a Dutch version of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CB...

INTRODUCTION Overactive bladder (OAB) is generally characterized by urinary urgency with or without incontinence and increased frequency of voiding and nocturia. Although animal studies have demonstrated the relationship between defective serotonergic neurotransmission and OAB, its etiology is still unclarified. Temperament profiles are hypothesized to be related with serotonergic activity and ...

in order to arrive at a better understanding of resurrecting individuals, one should consider theories of soul and, more specifically, that saying the sameness between soul and temperament. advocates of this theory assert that soul is the efficient cause for the appearance of biotic effects. they also maintain that this efficient cause (i.e. soul) is an accident called temperament and, hence, s...

The Francis Psychological Type Scales were developed during the early 2000s to operationalize four components of psychological type theory within survey-style research, proposing measures introversion and extraversion, sensing intuition, feeling thinking, judging perceiving. Drawing on datasets clergy churchgoers (N = 291, 879, 1,296, 1,525), present study tests factor structure these establish...