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Deriving Childhood Temperament Measures from Emotion-Eliciting Behavioral Episodes: Scale Construction and Initial Validation
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Gagne, Jeffrey R.; Van Hulle, Carol A.; Aksan, Nazan; Essex, Marilyn J.; Goldsmith, H. Hill – Psychological Assessment, 2011
The authors describe the development and initial validation of a home-based version of the Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (Lab-TAB), which was designed to assess childhood temperament with a comprehensive series of emotion-eliciting behavioral episodes. This article provides researchers with general guidelines for assessing specific…
Descriptors: Personality, Child Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Preschool Children
Roundtable: What Is Temperament? Four Approaches.
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Goldsmith, H. Hill; And Others – Child Development, 1987
Four current approaches to understanding temperament are discussed. Theorists representing four postions--Goldsmith, Buss and Plomin, Rothbart, and Thomas and Chess--outline their views by reponding to six common questions. Commentaries highlighting differences and similarities between the positions are offered by Hinde and McCall. (Author/BN)
Descriptors: Children, Definitions, Discussion, Fundamental Concepts
Developmental Models of Infant and Childhood Temperament.
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Lemery, Kathryn S.; Goldsmith, H. Hill; Klinnert, Mary D.; Mrazek, David A. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined the developmental courses of temperamental constructs using structural equation model fitting with children from 3 to 48 months of age. Found that across all measurement occasions, models that fit best were those that allowed for stability in temperament to be at least partially mediated through intermediate forms of the trait. (JPB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Infants, Models, Personality
Genetic Relations between Effortful and Attentional Control and Symptoms of Psychopathology in Middle Childhood
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Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn; Doelger, Lisa; Goldsmith, H. Hill – Infant and Child Development, 2008
Elucidating the genetic and environmental aetiology of effortful control (mother and father reports at two time points), attentional control (observer reports), and their associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms (mother and father reports) is the central focus of this paper. With a sample of twins in middle childhood…
Descriptors: Mothers, Psychopathology, Children, Personality
The Structure of Temperamental Fear and Pleasure in Infants: A Psychometric Perspective.
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Goldsmith, H. Hill; Campos, Joseph J. – Child Development, 1990
Temperament of nine-month olds was assessed by means of questionnaires and two laboratory visits. Mothers' and fathers' agreement on questionnaire scales was low, and their factor structures differed. In laboratory measures, fearfulness and pleasure showed cross-situation generality, short-term stability, and convergence with questionnaire scales.…
Descriptors: Fathers, Fear, Infant Behavior, Infants
Toddler and Childhood Temperament: Expanded Content, Stronger Genetic Evidence, New Evidence for the Importance of Environment.
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Goldsmith, H. Hill; Buss, Kristin A.; Lemery, Kathryn S. – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Studied 715 twins and singletons to document heritable influences on temperament during toddler and preschool ages. Found substantial shared environmental influence on positive affect and additive genetic influence on emotion regulation. Intraclass correlations from many scales showed no evidence of "too-low" dizygotic correlations that…
Descriptors: Genetics, Influences, Nature Nurture Controversy, Personality
Temperament as a Potential Developmental Influence on Attachment.
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Goldsmith, H. Hill; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1986
Discusses the potential role of temperament dimensions for the development of mother-infant attachment relations as measured by the Strange Situation Assessment. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Individual Differences, Infants