The structure of adolescent temperament and associations with psychological functioning: A replication and extension of Snyder et al. (2015).

ABSTRACT: The present study attempts to replicate and extend Snyder et al. (2015, JPSP). The original study examined the latent factor structure of the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire-Revised (EATQ-R), a commonly used measure of adolescent temperament, and showed that the resulting latent factors (i.e., effortful control, negative emotionality, and positive emotionality) had theoretically meaningful concurrent associations with several measures of adolescent functioning (depression, anxiety, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD], relational aggression, and school performance and behavior). We performed these same analyses using data from a large sample of Mexican-origin youth (N = 674), and also examined prospective associations between the three EATQ-R factors and measures of a

SUBMITTER: Lawson KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8333190 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature