The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between parental depression, offspring temperament, and offspring major depressive disorder (MDD), and to determine whether difficult temperament, as measured by the Dimensions of Temperament Survey (DOTS), mediates the relation between parental MDD and offspring MDD. Offspring (n=169) of depressed or never depressed parents were followed o...

The numerous temperament and personality constructs in childhood impede the systematic integration of findings on how these individual differences relate to developmental psychopathology. This paper reviews the main temperament and personality theories and proposes a theoretical taxonomy representing the common structure of both temperament and personality traditions within one conceptual frame...

background and aims. temperament has been suggested to be a predictive factor for the child’s reaction to dental treatment especially in young ages. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between temperament and child behavior in relation to age in the dental setting. materials and methods. in this descriptive-analytical study, 190 children, aged 1 to 7 years, who visited dentist ...

In this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study we examined neural processing of infant faces associated with a happy or a sad temperament in nulliparous women. We experimentally manipulated adult perception of infant temperament in a probabilistic learning task. In this task, participants learned about an infant's temperament through repeated pairing of the infant face with positive...

A certain combination of temperament which is manifested in the cognitive processes, actions and communication sport fishermen determines their individual style activity. This activity a system dynamic features that depend on temperament; this includes work techniques are typical fisherman. What we observe when study dynamics fisherman, perceive as signs his (different movements, reactions), fo...

The Lebanese-Arabic TEMPS-A (Temperament Evaluation of the Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Autoquestionnaire) was used to assess the association between affective temperament and mental disorders in a nationally representative sample of the Lebanese Evaluation of the Burden of Ailments and Needs Of the Nation study(L.E.B.A.N.O.N). The five affective temperaments were associated with mental d...

This study sought to characterize temperament traits in a sample of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ages 3-7 years old, and to determine the potential association between temperament and sensory features in ASD. Individual differences in sensory processing may form the basis for aspects of temperament and personality, and aberrations in sensory processing may inform why some tempe...

Cattle temperament, which describes individual behaviour differences with regard to a stressor or environmental challenge, is known for its impact on working safety, adaptability to new housing conditions, animal productivity and for evaluation of animal welfare. However, successful use of temperament in animal breeding and husbandry to improve keeping conditions in general or animal welfare in...

This study examined the role of temperament type and gender adolescents teachers in adolescents' well-being school. The sample consisted 677 Finnish students 56 classroom teachers. Parents rated adolescent their own autumn Grade 6. Self-reports school among were obtained fall results showed that being a girl having resilient predicted higher well-being. In turn, boys with undercontrolled temper...

This study aimed to test how sense of humor is dependent on the complex and dynamic interactions between emotional (temperament) sociocognitive (character) components personality. Specifically, we examined relationship temperament and/or character profiles overall potential comic style. In total, 665 adults responded Cloninger’s Temperament Character Inventory (TCI) Comic Style Markers. were as...