Loss of Temper and Irritability: The Relationship to Tantrums in a Community and Clinical Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study explores the relationship of irritability to tantrums and loss of temper in a community and clinical sample.

Methods

The community sample, recruited via commercial mailing lists, consisted of 462 6-year-olds whose parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA). Tantrums were assessed in the oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) section of the PAPA. Irritability was assessed in the depression section to identify persistently irritable and/or angry mood. The clinic sample, drawn from a child psychiatry clinic, included 229 consecutively referred 6-year-olds from 2005 through 2014 whose parents completed the CBCL and Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory (CASI). Temper loss and irritability items came

SUBMITTER: Carlson GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4800384 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature