Temperament - Classification
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

A developmental twin study of church attendance and alcohol and nicotine consumption: a model for analyzing the changing impact of genes and environment.

13 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Church attendance is one of the most consistent predictors of alcohol and nicotine consumption. The authors sought to clarify changes in the role of genetic and environmental factors in influencing church attendance and the ... Read more...

Association of depressive phenotype with affective family history is mediated by affective temperaments.

3 Jun 2009 Increasing data support an association of cyclothymic temperament with bipolarity, but our knowledge about the relationship of affective temperaments (ATs) to depressive symptoms based on inheritance in a non-clinical population is limited. The aim ... Read more...

A cybernetic model of global personality traits.

5 Apr 2009 Neurobehavioral studies of human and animal temperament have shed light on how individual personality traits influence human actions. This approach, however, leaves open questions about how the entire system of traits and temperaments function ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Temperament - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A developmental twin study of church attendance and alcohol and nicotine consumption: a model for analyzing the changing impact of genes and environment. 13 Sep 2009
• Association of depressive phenotype with affective family history is mediated by affective temperaments. 3 Jun 2009
• A cybernetic model of global personality traits. 5 Apr 2009
• Variations in cortical folding patterns are related to individual differences in temperament. 26 Feb 2009
• [Temperament traits, depression and cognitive functioning of patients with coronary heart disease] 29 Nov 2008
• Development and validation of the Combined Emotional and Affective Temperament Scale (CEATS): towards a brief self-rated instrument. 22 Sep 2008
• Personality in schizophrenia assessed with the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). 5 Jul 2008
• Anorexia nervosa trios: behavioral profiles of individuals with anorexia nervosa and their parents. 24 Jun 2008
• Personality and health in Japanese older adults. 29 Apr 2008
• Personality dimensions and treatment drop-outs among eating disorder patients treated with cognitive behavior therapy. 2 Mar 2008
• Attentional bias as trait: correlations with novelty seeking. 7 Feb 2008
• [Toward DSM-V: new approaches for the classification of personality disorders] 30 Dec 2007
• Depressive personality disorder, dysthymia, and their relationship to perfectionism. 30 Dec 2007
• A prospective test of anxiety sensitivity as a moderator of the relation between gender and posttraumatic symptom maintenance among high anxiety sensitive young adults. 30 Dec 2007
• The emotion reactivity scale: development, evaluation, and relation to self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. 27 Oct 2007
• A case series on the hypothesized connection between dementia and bipolar spectrum disorders: bipolar type VI? 19 Sep 2007
• TEMPS-A (Rome): psychometric validation of affective temperaments in clinically well subjects in mid- and south Italy. 17 Sep 2007
• Harm avoidance in subjects with obsessive-compulsive disorder and their families. 10 Sep 2007
• Affective temperament: a mediating variable between environment and clinical depression? 30 Aug 2007
• Temperament and character factors in Korean children with seizure disorders. 30 May 2007

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Technical information about 'Temperament'

Definition: Predisposition to react to one's environment in a certain way; usually refers to mood changes.

Descriptor UI: D013694

Alternative terms: Temperament; Temperaments;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.752.898;

Online Note: search PERSONALITY 1968-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under PERSONALITY 1975-90