Temperament
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Children's desire for perioperative information.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The purpose of this investigation was to identify what perioperative information children want to receive from the medical staff. METHODS: As a first step, we developed an instrument based on a qualitative study conducted with children ... Read more...

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...

A prospective three generational study of fathers' constructive parenting: influences from family of origin, adolescent adjustment, and offspring temperament.

30 Aug 2009 This prospective, intergenerational study considered multiple influences on 102 fathers' constructive parenting of 181 children. Fathers in the 2nd generation (G2) were recruited as boys on the basis of neighborhood risk for delinquency and assessed ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Temperament'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Children's desire for perioperative information. 29 Sep 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
• A prospective three generational study of fathers' constructive parenting: influences from family of origin, adolescent adjustment, and offspring temperament. 30 Aug 2009
• A proposal for a dimensional classification system based on the shared features of the DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders: implications for assessment and treatment. 30 Aug 2009
• Studying affect among the Chinese: the circular way. 30 Aug 2009
• Stress and reactivity to daily relationship experiences: How stress hinders adaptive processes in marriage. 30 Aug 2009
• Serotonin transporter availability in the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis predicts anxious temperament and brain glucose metabolic activity. 10 Aug 2009
• [The prediction of the level of depression by cognitive, behavioral, and temperamental variables in a six-month time interval] 30 Jul 2009
• Are some children harder to coparent than others? Children's negative emotionality and coparenting relationship quality. 30 Jul 2009
• Affective temperaments in alcoholic patients. 30 Jul 2009
• Smile intensity and warm touch as thin slices of child and family affective style. 30 Jul 2009
• Undernourished children have different temperaments than better-nourished children in rural Bangladesh. 13 Jul 2009
• Regulation of embryogenesis by light and its ecological significance in the Asian Tadpole shrimp Triops granarius. 29 Jun 2009
• A genome-wide scan for the Sasang constitution in a Korean family suggests significant linkage at chromosomes 8q11.22-23 and 11q22.1-3. 29 Jun 2009
• Do different measures tap the same genetic influences? A multi-method study of activity level in young twins. 29 Jun 2009
• Electrophysiological responses to auditory novelty in temperamentally different 9-month-old infants. 29 Jun 2009
• Meta-analysis on drugs in people with eating disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• Back to the future in style: psychosomatic research in cardiovascular disease. 29 Jun 2009
• Temperament does not affect the overall establishment of mutual preference between the mother and her young in sheep measured in a choice test. 29 Jun 2009
• Predicting growth curves of early childhood externalizing problems: differential susceptibility of children with difficult temperament. 29 Jun 2009

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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