An ADHD scale was constructed from
the emotionality activity sociability (EAS) temperament measurement scale [44] and one item from the hyperactivity subscale of the child behaviour checklist (CBCL / 1.5 — 5)[40].
Using data on 8769 children from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, we examined whether difficult temperament (Toddler Temperament Scale at 24 months;
Emotionality Activity Sociability Questionnaire at 38 months) and psychological problems (Revised Rutter Parent Scale for Preschool Children at 42 months) are linked to bedwetting at school age.
Maternal temperament was measured at T1 using the adult version of
the Emotionality Activity and Sociability scale (EAS)(Buss and Plomin [1984]-RRB-.
Not exact matches
The current list of temperament dimensions includes three broad basic dimensions: Extraversion / Surgency, which is related to positive
emotionality,
activity level, impulsivity and risk - taking; Negative Affectivity, which is related to fear, anger, sadness and discomfort; and Effortful Control, which is related to attention shifting and focusing, perceptual sensitivity, and inhibitory and activational control.
Activities during the sleep deprivation period were limited to use of the Internet, E-mail, short walks, reading, movies of low
emotionality, and playing board games, providing a standardized regiment of waking
activity without undue stress.
Temperament was operationalized as motor
activity, cooperativeness, negative
emotionality, mental vitality, sociability and positive
emotionality.
Motor
activity in childhood and mental vitality, sociability and positive
emotionality in adolescence were associated with apoE.
The current list of temperament dimensions includes three broad basic dimensions: Extraversion / Surgency, which is related to positive
emotionality,
activity level, impulsivity and risk - taking; Negative Affectivity, which is related to fear, anger, sadness and discomfort; and Effortful Control, which is related to attention shifting and focusing, perceptual sensitivity, and inhibitory and activational control.
Children diagnosed as Combined or Predominantly Hyperactive Impulsive Type had significantly higher scores than those diagnosed as Predominantly Inattentive Type in anxious and avoidant attachment,
emotionality, and
activity dimensions of temperament, and their parents reported higher levels of controlling styles.
Hierarchic regressions indicated that parental promotion of autonomy with children with temperamental
emotionality predicted anxious attachment, while parental restriction of autonomy with children with high levels of temperamental
activity predicted avoidant attachment.
There was no significant difference for
activity,
emotionality, sociability, persistence, or food adaptation (Analysis 2.2).
Infant temperament (for example,
activity, soothability,
emotionality and sociability etc); attachment; behaviour (for example, Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory (ECBI); Nursing Child Teaching Assessment Scales (NCATS)-RRB-; parent - infant interaction; development (for example, Bayley Scales); IQ (for example, Capital Institute Mental Checklist (China)-RRB-.
At age 5, eight temperamental characteristics were assessed: negative
emotionality, inhibition,
activity level, task persistence (scored in nonpersistent direction), biological irregularity, emotional intensity, stimulation threshold, the tendency to be slow to adapt to change and mood.