Adolescent emotionality and effortful control: Core latent constructs and links to psychopathology and functioning.

ABSTRACT: Temperament is associated with important outcomes in adolescence, including academic and interpersonal functioning and psychopathology. Rothbart's temperament model is among the most well-studied and supported approaches to adolescent temperament, and contains 3 main components: positive emotionality (PE), negative emotionality (NE), and effortful control (EC). However, the latent factor structure of Rothbart's temperament measure for adolescents, the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire Revised (EATQ-R; Ellis & Rothbart, 2001) has not been definitively established. To address this problem and investigate links between adolescent temperament and functioning, we used confirmatory factor analysis to examine the latent constructs of the EATQ-R in a large combined sample. For EC and NE,

SUBMITTER: Snyder HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4659771 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature