Temperament, Personality and Developmental Psychopathology: A Review Based on the Conceptual Dimensions Underlying Childhood Traits
- 9 January 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Child Psychiatry and Human Development
- Vol. 41 (3), 313-329
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-009-0171-8
Abstract
The numerous temperament and personality constructs in childhood impede the systematic integration of findings on how these individual differences relate to developmental psychopathology. This paper reviews the main temperament and personality theories and proposes a theoretical taxonomy representing the common structure of both temperament and personality traditions within one conceptual framework. This integrated lexicon of childhood temperament/personality traits facilitates an overview of the most important research findings on the role of temperament and personality in the development of anxiety, depression, ADHD, proactive and reactive antisocial behavior. Several directions for future research are discussed to further validate and refine these reviewed relationships.This publication has 74 references indexed in Scilit:
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