Exuberant and inhibited toddlers: Stability of temperament and risk for problem behavior
- 21 April 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Development and Psychopathology
- Vol. 20 (2), 401-421
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579408000199
Abstract
Temperament, effortful control, and problem behaviors at 4.5 years were assessed in 72 children classified as exuberant, inhibited, and low reactive as 2-year-olds. Exuberant toddlers were more positive, socially responsive to novel persons, less shy, and rated as having more problem behaviors, including externalizing and internalizing behaviors, than other children as preschoolers. Two forms of effortful control, the ability to delay a response and the ability to produce a subdominant response, were associated with fewer externalizing behaviors, whereas expressing more negative affect (relative to positive/neutral affect) when disappointed was related to more internalizing behaviors. Interaction effects implicated high levels of unregulated emotion during disappointment as a risk factor for problem behaviors in exuberant children.Keywords
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