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Temperament and social behavior in childhood

M. Rothbart, S. Ahadi, Karen L. Hershey

1994MERRILL-PALMER QUARTERLY-JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Exploring relationships between temperament and social behavior patterns in 6- to 7-year-old children.

Abstract

Relationships were explored between measures of temperament and the social behavior patterns of empathy, guilt/shame, aggression, help-seeking, and negativity for a group of 6- to 7-year-old children. For a subset of the sample, predictions of these social behavior patterns from infant laboratory observations were also reposed

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ROTHBART, M.; AHADI, S.; HERSHEY, Karen L. Temperament and social behavior in childhood. MERRILL-PALMER QUARTERLY-JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1994, 40: 21–39.