Early Detection of Temperament Risk Factors: A Comparison of Clinically Referred and General Population Children.

ABSTRACT: Despite an extensive literature on associations between early childhood temperament and behavior problems, most of this evidence is based on general population samples. Hence, relatively little is known about the temperament characteristics of children who have been referred for in- or outpatient treatment of emotional and/or behavioral problems. Whether temperament-to-behavior problems identified in community samples would also be found in samples of clinically referred children is poorly understood. To redress this limitation, we compared temperament attributes of a predominantly preschool-aged sample of children referred for treatment of emotional and/or behavioral disorders (N = 87) with those from a similarly-aged general population sample (N = 85) by using the Integrati

SUBMITTER: Zentner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8264422 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature