1 Temperament & Personality • Temperament: constitutionally based individual differences in emotion, motor, reactivity and self-regulation that demonstrate consistency across situations and over time • Temperament is biologically based: Heredity, neural, and hormonal factors affect response to the environment. • Temperament can be modulated by environmental factors; parental response. Examples of Thomas and Chess’s Temperament Dimensions
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Temperament & Personality
• Temperament: constitutionally basedindividual differences in emotion, motor,reactivity and self-regulation that demonstrateconsistency across situations and over time
• Temperament is biologically based: Heredity,neural, and hormonal factors affect response tothe environment.
• Temperament can be modulated byenvironmental factors; parental response.
Examples of Thomas and Chess’sTemperament Dimensions
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Temperament Dimensions (continued)
Thomas and Chess’s Temperament Types
• Easy babies: 40% of infants; adjust easily tonew situations, quickly establish routines, aregenerally cheerful and easy to calm.
• Difficult babies: 10% of infants; slow toadjust to new experiences, likely to reactnegatively and intensely to stimuli and events.
• Slow-to-warm-up babies: 15% of infants;somewhat difficult at first but become easierover time.
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Temperament
Six Dimensions of InfantTemperament (Rothbart & Bates)
Role of Temperament in SocialSkills and Adjustment
• Differences in anger/irritability, positiveemotion, and ability to regulate emotions areassociated with social competence andadjustment.
• Children who are negative, impulsive, andunregulated tend to have poor peer relationsand get in trouble with the law. They aredifficult partners and roommates.
• Behaviorally inhibited children are more likelyto experience anxiety, depression, andphobias.
Temperament and Social Adjustment• “Goodness of fit”: the degree to which an
individual’s temperament is compatible withthe demands and expectations of his or hersocial environment
• Parents can modulate children’s temperamentby their influences on the environment.– What is good parenting for a difficult
baby/child?– What is good parenting for a slow-to-warm-up