"Child temperament" refers to the natural and unique way that each child behaves, reacts, and interacts with their environment. It describes their individual personality traits and tendencies, such as their level of activity, adaptability, and emotions.
Full definition
The role
of child temperament in parental child feeding practices and attitudes using a sibling design.
After touching on measurement issues... and tools, the authors conclude with an outlook
on child temperament research.
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Child temperament at age 1 can predict levels of parental engagement when a child is 1 and 5 years old.
The current study aimed to evaluate the indirect effects of parenting dimensions on child ADHD symptoms
via child temperament.
This article provides a review and synthesis of concepts, research programs, and measures in the infant and
child temperament area.
Main areas of assistance include infant sleep problems,
child temperament issues, developmental delay, social isolation and family stress.
Child temperament involves a mother's perception of the child, such as viewing the child as someone who cries a lot, is fussy or gets upset easily.
The researchers used a national set of data related to single mothers and studied parental stress, parental engagement and
child temperament when the children were ages 1, 3 and 5.
First, the authors present an overview of five classical approaches to the study
of child temperament that continue to stimulate research today.
In contrast, dyadic parenting behavior moderated the associations
between child temperament and children's self - reported timidity and agreeableness such that temperament was only associated with children's self - concepts when mothers and fathers engaged in particular parenting behaviors.
Toward a synthesis of parental socialization and
child temperament in early development of conscience
Studies showing the influence of
child temperament upon parenting suggest that children who have high levels of negative emotionality or self - regulatory difficulties are more difficult to parent than other children.
Twin studies of
child temperament using objective measures consistently suggest moderate heritability for most dimensions.
Measures of marital satisfaction and
child temperament did not relate to child outcomes, nor did they interact with marital patterns to produce deficits in children's general adjustment.
Zimet and Jacob (2001) emphasized the lack of empirical studies
addressing child temperament as a potential moderator of relations between family conflict and children's adaptive behavior.
She also loves to work with young adults in transition and parents who find parenting more challenging than they expected, either because of adoption, medical conditions, infertility or issues
like child temperament or learning disabilities.
In her sleep practice, Andrea uses a variety of methods and tailors sleep plans to take family values and
child temperament into account.
Sometimes children inherit their parents» temperaments and sometimes parent -
child temperaments clash like polka dots and stripes.
From the abstract: Maternal reports of food avoidance eating behaviours were associated with an
emotional child temperament, high levels of maternal feeding control, using food for behaviour regulation, and low encouragement of a balanced and varied food intake.
In addition, a moderation effect was found that was consistent with Crockenberg and Leerkes» (2003) transactional model: Among families with relatively high levels of resources and coping capacity, a
reactive child temperament appeared to bring these parents together in a more supportive coparenting relationship.
Linking child temperament, physiology, and adult personality: Relations among retrospective behavioral inhibition, salivary cortisol, and shyness.
There is substantial evidence that many developmental outcomes, such as cognitive development and behavior problems for LBW / PT children, are influenced not only by the growth compromised in utero but also by environmental factors such as poverty (McCarton, 1998) and poor parenting (Dadds & Salmon, 2003), and also
by child temperament (Hertzig & Mittleman, 1984).
For internalizing behavior, the impact of family conflict during early school years was uniformly negative regardless of
child temperament after accounting for early internalizing behavior.
These associations were not overshadowed by other cognitive or social risk factors, or by other
relevant child temperament traits such as proneness to irritability.
Sixty - five children, aged 3 — 5 years and their mothers completed measures
on child temperament, family environment, maternal personality, and child internalizing symptoms.
The completely revised and updated edition includes: new information, based on research,
about child temperament; new chapter on the hot topic of play as a means of strengthening parent - child relationship; new section on collaborative disciplining with preschool teachers; expanded section about depression and stress linked to parenting; new research findings about ADHD and its treatment.
The results indicated that
child temperament did not moderate the impact of family conflict on internalizing behavior.