Although previous research indicates that parental child feeding practices are one component of a bidirectional relationship between children and parents, little is known about how child temperament operates in this relationship. The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between child temperament and parental feeding practices and attitudes using a sibling design. By collecting...

The relationship between temperaments and mental disorders has been reported in previous studies, but there has been little attention to temperaments in the occupational safety and health research. The aim of this study was to clarify the effects of temperaments on occupational stress among local government employees. The subjects were 145 Japanese daytime workers in local government. Temperame...

McKenney Jackie L. (Writer) (Last Name) (First) (Initial) Hopelessness and Temperament of Youth in Residential Treatment (Title) Guidance and Counseling Dr. Gary Rockwood May, 2000 44 (Graduate Major) (Research Advisor) (Month/Year) (No. of Pages) American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual (Name of Style Manual Used in this Study) The importance of hopelessness and temperament ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between temperament score and blood cortisol concentration, as well as energy metabolic parameters (glucose, triglyceride, non-esterified fatty acid and cholesterol) in Tsigai lambs during fattening. The temperament of lambs was assessed (scored) by a temperament score test, where the behaviour of animals was evaluated in a 5-sco...

The objective of this study was to compare adrenal responsiveness to stimulation with exogenous ACTH, in calm and temperamental heifers. Two-year old, spring born Brahman heifers comprised the two temperament groups that were selected using exit velocity (EV). The calm (C) and temperamental (T) groups consisted of the 6 slowest (EV=1.05±.05 m/sec) and 6 fastest (EV=3.14±0.22 m/sec) two-year old...

Effective coping during athletic competition has been shown to benefit performance. This study was designed to investigate the direct and indirect effects of personality and achievement motivation on athletes’ coping style. Elliot’s Hierarchical Model of Approach and Avoidance Motivation (Elliot, 1999; Elliot & Church, 1997) was used as the framework to assess participants’ (N=258) temperament ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the links between temperament and sleep in a group of preschoolers with ADHD. METHOD Twenty-five ADHD ( M = 5.37 years, SD = 1.09) and 22 typically developing (TD; M = 5.10, SD = 1.18) preschoolers participated in the study. Sleep was assessed with the Sleep Disturbance Scale and wrist actigraphy. The Preschool Temperament and Character Inve...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate whether childhood trauma (CT) and affective temperament have an impact on resilience in bipolar patients. METHODS One hundred cases with bipolar disorder (BD) diagnosis according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV) were evaluated consecutively in their euthymic period during outpatient follow-up...

This study examines the associations of child temperament with overweight/obesity and breakfast habits. Participants were 17,409 five-year-olds whose mothers partake in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), and completed a questionnaire at the child's 5th birthday. Temperament was assessed as externalizing, internalizing and sociable temperament. Breakfast habits differentiated be...

Indicators of temperament appear early in infancy and remain relatively stable over time. Despite a great deal of interest in biological indices of temperament, most studies of infant temperament rely on parental reports or behavioral tasks. Thus, the extent to which commonly used temperament measures relate to potential biological indicators of infant temperament is still relatively unknown. T...