Childhood temperaments

For example, some infant or early childhood temperaments, such as an inhibited or negative emotionality, have been found to be possible precursors of psychopathology in later childhood. Children with dysfunctional temperaments may also provoke behavior from their parents that consolidates the dysfunctional temperament.50... 

Does early childhood temperament predict adult temperament The evidence is that behavioral styles at age 3 years are linked to personality traits at age 18 years.54 This won t surprise most parents, who themselves will note that the personality... 

Schwartz, C.E., Snidman, N., Schwartz, C.E., Snidman, N., and Kagan, J. (1999) Adolescent social anxiety as an outcome of inhibited temperament in childhood. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38 1008-1015. 

Higley ID, Suomi SJ Temperamental reactivity in nonhuman primates, in Temperament in Childhood. Edited by Kohnstamm D, Bates JE, Rothbart MK. 

William Ward Pigman, first son of James Ward Pigman and Olga (Chapel) Pigman, was bom on March 5,1910, in Chicago to a middle-class family, his father working for the U. S. Post Office. To what extent his early childhood and environment influenced his temperament is not known however, he loved life intensely, and that spirit was reflected in his many and varied activities. 

In this book I use the term fetal programming —without reference to mechanism—to describe environmental impact of any kind on the fetus that produces alterations in health and disease apparent at any time in childhood or adulthood. This idea is essentially an extension into the prenatal period of more general conclusions about the role of early experience in later life. Included in this conception are postnatal temperament, behavior patterns, intelligence, psychopathology, and so on—the behavioral focus of this book. The point is that sometimes postnatal consequences of prenatal environmental impacts involve more than just alterations in the physiology of organ systems—such impacts can also have consequences for later behavior and cognitive performance. 

Temperament in Childhood. Chichester, Eng John Wiley Sons. Pp. 3-26. 

Bates JE. 2001. Adjustment style in childhood as a product of parenting and temperament. In Wachs TD, Kohnstamm GA, eds. Temperament in Context. Mahwah, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 173-200. Bates JE, Bayles K. 1984. Objective and subjective components in mothers perceptions of their children from age 6 months to 3 years. Merrill Palmer Q 30 111-130. 

Rothbart MK, Derryberry D, Hershey K. 2000. Stability of temperament in childhood Laboratory infant assessment to parent report at seven years. In Molfese VJ, Molfese DL, eds. Temperament and Personality Development Across the Life Span. Mahwah, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 85-118. 

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