Temperament

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infants. 
  • A model of the development and maintenance of generalized social phobia. 
  • A model predicting suicidal ideation and hopelessness in depressed older adults: the impact of emotion inhibition and affect intensity. 
  • Antecedents of adult interpersonal functioning: effects of individual differences in age 3 temperament. 
  • Associations between temperament and DSM-IV externalizing disorders in children and adolescents. 
  • Attentional characteristics of infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome during triadic interactions. 
  • Atypical behaviors in children with autism and children with a history of language impairment. 
  • Catechol O-methyltransferase val158met genotype and neural mechanisms related to affective arousal and regulation. 
  • Childhood predictors differentiate life-course persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways among males and females. 
  • Children's behavioral styles at age 3 are linked to their adult personality traits at age 26. 
  • Coping styles in heart failure patients with depressive symptoms. 
  • Daylength during pregnancy and shyness in children: results from northern and southern hemispheres. 
  • Developmental antecedents of partner abuse: a prospective-longitudinal study. 
  • Differences in the cognitive skills of bonobos and chimpanzees. 
  • Dispositional, demographic, and social predictors of trajectories of intimate partner aggression in early adulthood. 
  • Early childhood factors associated with the development of post-traumatic stress disorder: results from a longitudinal birth cohort. 
  • Editorial: Shedding Light on the Early Neurobiological Roots of Infant Temperament and Risk for Anxiety. 
  • Effects of perinatal testosterone on infant health, mother-infant interactions, and infant development. 
  • Enduring mental health: Prevalence and prediction. 
  • Ethnic differences in the link between physical discipline and later adolescent externalizing behaviors. 
  • Frontal brain electrical activity in infants of depressed and nondepressed mothers: relation to variations in infant behavior. 
  • Future orientation in the self-system: possible selves, self-regulation, and behavior. 
  • Gene-environment interplay and psychopathology: multiple varieties but real effects. 
  • Generalized anxiety disorder and depression: childhood risk factors in a birth cohort followed to age 32. 
  • Genetic and environmental influences on temperament in the first year of life: the Puerto Rico Infant Twin Study (PRINTS). 
  • Genetic and environmental processes in young children's resilience and vulnerability to socioeconomic deprivation. 
  • Gestational Timing of Prenatal Disturbance and Fetal Sex Determine the Developmental Outcomes. 
  • Hypo-egoic self-regulation: exercising self-control by diminishing the influence of the self. 
  • Imaging genetics. 
  • Influence of Temperament As a Risk Indicator for Early Childhood Caries. 
  • Interaction of temperamental resistance to control and restrictive parenting in the development of externalizing behavior. 
  • Internalizing and externalizing subtypes in female sexual assault survivors: implications for the understanding of complex PTSD. 
  • Mapping the Growth of Heterogeneous Forms of Externalizing Problem Behavior Between Early Childhood and Adolescence:A Comparison of Parent and Teacher Ratings. 
  • Mechanisms in the cycle of violence. 
  • Multi-informant assessment of temperament in children with externalizing behavior problems. 
  • Nosology and measurement in child and adolescent psychiatry. 
  • Pain in children: progress and challenges 
  • Parental agreement of reporting parent to child aggression using the Conflict Tactics Scales 
  • Perceived social support moderates the link between threat-related amygdala reactivity and trait anxiety. 
  • Periconceptional Maternal Diet Characterized by High Glycemic Loading Is Associated with Offspring Behavior in NEST. 
  • Personality and oral health. 
  • Personality and self-regulation: trait and information-processing perspectives. 
  • Personality differences predict health-risk behaviors in young adulthood: evidence from a longitudinal study. 
  • Personality traits and pathology in older and younger incarcerated women. 
  • Predicting the developmental course of mother-reported monitoring across childhood and adolescence from early proactive parenting, child temperament, and parents' worries. 
  • Prediction of all-cause mortality by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Optimism-Pessimism Scale scores: study of a college sample during a 40-year follow-up period. 
  • Preschool psychopathology: lessons for the lifespan. 
  • Problem behavior in boys with fragile X syndrome. 
  • Psychological and neural mechanisms of trait mindfulness in reducing depression vulnerability. 
  • Psychological and physiological effects of physical conditioning on the elderly. 
  • Resilience-recovery factors in post-traumatic stress disorder among female and male Vietnam veterans: hardiness, postwar social support, and additional stressful life events. 
  • Risk factors prospectively associated with adult obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions and obsessive-compulsive disorder. 
  • Sex, temperament, and family context: how the interaction of early factors differentially predict adolescent alcohol use and are mediated by proximal adolescent factors. 
  • Social information processing and cardiac predictors of adolescent antisocial behavior. 
  • Strength and safety in numbers: considering the social implications of regulatory focus. 
  • Subjective experience of sensation in anorexia nervosa. 
  • Survival of the Friendliest: Homo sapiens Evolved via Selection for Prosociality. 
  • Temper, temperature, and temptation: heat-related retaliation in baseball. 
  • Temperament Is Associated With Outdoor Free Play in Young Children: A TARGet Kids! Study. 
  • Temperament moderates associations between exposure to stress and children’s externalizing problems 
  • Temperament, recalled parenting styles, and self-regulation: testing the developmental postulates of self-discrepancy theory. 
  • Temperamental origins of child and adolescent behavior problems: from age three to age fifteen. 
  • Temperamental qualities at age three predict personality traits in young adulthood: longitudinal evidence from a birth cohort. 
  • Temperamental resistance to control increases the association between sleep problems and externalizing behavior development. 
  • The child is father of the man: personality continuities from childhood to adulthood. 
  • The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strength. 
  • The moderating effects of children's fear and activity level on relations between parenting practices and childhood symptomatology. 
  • The role of zinc and iron-folic acid supplementation on early child temperament and eating behaviors in rural Nepal: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Tolerance allows bonobos to outperform chimpanzees on a cooperative task. 
  • Two personalities, one relationship: both partners' personality traits shape the quality of their relationship. 
  • Undercontrolled temperament at age 3 predicts disordered gambling at age 32: a longitudinal study of a complete birth cohort. 
  • Weight-related quality of life and temperament as predictors and moderators of outcomes among treatment-seeking, low-income, ethnically diverse children with obesity. 
  • Work stress precipitates depression and anxiety in young, working women and men. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology