The third edition of the handbook of developmental psychopathology is a disciplinedefining, forwardlooking resource for researchers, clinicians, scientistpractitioners, and graduate students in such fields as developmental psychology, psychiatry, social work, child and school psychology, educational psychology, and pediatrics. His later publications place increasing emphasis on eastern and western philosophy and religion. A potential integrative framework is discussed that links trait and biological markers of temperament reactive, incentiveresponse tendencies with regulatory processes. Dilalla genetic factors exert an important influence on adult personality traits, accounting for anywhere between 30% and 60% of the variance. This article focuses on the temperament factors that are involved in the pathogenesis of child psychopathology. The numerous temperament and personality constructs in childhood impede the systematic integration of findings on how these individual differences relate to developmental psychopathology. This study investigated links between temperament and dimensional, latent psychopathology factors, including a general common psychopathology factor p factor and specific latent internalizing and externalizing liabilities, as captured by a bifactor model, in two independent samples of youth. Personality, romantic relationships, and alcohol use disorder. Temperament factors and dimensional, latent bifactor models. Temperament, personality and developmental dimensions. Read temperament, personality, and developmental psychopathology as childhood antecedents of personality disorders, journal of personality disorders on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips.
Temperament as a unifying basis for personality and. Temperament and developmental psychopathology nigg 2006. The role of temperament in the etiology of child psychopathology. Different conceptual and theoretical models are outlined and discussed, including a research agenda and an. The psychodynamics of borderline personality disorder. For decades, developmental psychopathology research using temperament has been growing vigorously. Hill goldsmith2 abstract personality, temperament, and psychopathology were until recently largely distinct areas of study, each of which emphasized partitioning of heritable and environmental variance. Personality and psychopathology compiles the conclusions of more than 30 internationally recognized experts who each carefully examine the link between personality traits and psychopathology. Nov 15, 2010 abstract the 3 articles in this special section of child development perspectives describe prospects of temperament and personality research for advancing understanding of developmental psychopathology and the internalizing and externalizing spectra of psychopathology in particular. In fact, low weight, chronicity or depressive and anxious symptoms have been shown to have a role in this regard. Heredity is also important for most forms of psychopathology. Rounding out this special issue, we are fortunate to include a final commentary from dante cicchetti, a founder of the modern developmental psychopathology framework. In this chapter, we offer a developmental perspective on temperament and personality traits from early childhood through adulthood.
Abstract the 3 articles in this special section of child development perspectives describe prospects of temperament and personality research for advancing understanding of developmental psychopathology and the internalizing and externalizing spectra of psychopathology in particular. Temperament early temperament and psychosocial development. Seventy percent of these considered temperament in relation to concepts representing the broader domain of developmental psychopathology, such as. First, we address the relationship between temperament and personality and the methods used to ascertain the structure of traits in these two research traditions. Objective early temperamental characteristics may influence childrens developmental pathways and predict future psychopathology. Child psychiatry and human development, 41, 3 329 doi. Next, we describe prominent dynamic theories of etiology of bpd and examine these in. Temperament in infancy and behavioral and emotional problems. Edited by dante cicchetti, the mcknight presidential chair of child psychology in the. Temperament and its role in developmental psychopathology rettew, david c. Temperament and personality assessment and treatment relevance.
Affective temperaments and eating psychopathology in anorexia. Heredity, neural, and hormonal factors affect response to the environment. Temperament and personality traits in childhood and adolescence. Recent findings have clarified the importance of personality in the development and expression of psychopathology. Viewing relational aggression through multiple lenses. Personality and psychopathology american psychopathological. Temperament and child psychopathology developmental clinical. Distinguishing temperament from psychopathology oxford.
Temperament, childhood environment and psychopathology. Understanding temperament is central to our understanding of development, and temperament constructs are linked to individual differences in both personality and underlying neural function. Ollendick, journalclinical child and family psychology. However, the environmental context may also shape or interact with infant temperament and indirectly contribute to increased vulnerability to adverse developmental outcomes. Apr 01, 2005 read temperament, personality, and developmental psychopathology as childhood antecedents of personality disorders, journal of personality disorders on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. In addition, i discuss the relation of temperament to conscience, empathy, aggression, and the development of behavior problems, and describe the relation between effortful. Temperament, personality, and developmental psychopathology. Ollendick2 a substantial proportion of children and adolescents come to suffer from psychological disorders. Prior research has shown that personlevel characteristics e. Temperament and child psychopathology developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry 9780803922976. The spectrum model, in contrast, hypothesizes that much of the taxonomic distinction between temperamental traits and psychiatric disorders is artificial and tautological, and that many disorders are better conceptualized as extremes of temperament.
Reflections on recent behavioral genetics research joel t. Temperament, childhood environment and psychopathology as risk factors for avoidant and borderline personality disorders peter r. Temperament concepts in developmental psychopathology. Common emotional and behavioral symptoms cooccur and are associated with core temperament factors. Despite modern views of psychiatric illness as binary yesorno conditions, a vast literature has accumulated demonstrating strong links between various temperament dimensions and nearly all types of psychopathology. A proposal about a prediction strategy from normality to. Developmental psychopathology, personality, and temperament. Edited by dante cicchetti, the mcknight presidential chair of child psychology in the institute of child. Temperament and personality prospects for developmental. The developmental psychopathology of personality disorders. The balance of these four humorsblood sanguis, phlegm, bile choler, and black. Different conceptual and theoretical models are outlined.
Temperament has also been linked to the development of psychopathology. Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology. Temperament and personality rutters child and adolescent. The fields most complete and authoritative reference, updated and expanded developmental psychopathology is the most complete and up to date reference in the field, with contributions by leading researchers and clinicians from a broad array of disciplines, specialties, and perspectives. Throughout, we stress the idea that temperamental models of personality development are dynamic, interactive, and fit well with cairnss developmental principles. The concept of temperament dates back to ancient greek philosophers, including hippocrates and galen, who postulated the cause of a persons usual behavior to be due to varying concentrations of humors. Temperament, personality and the development of psychopathology. Handbook of developmental psychopathology michael lewis. Temperament and its role in developmental psychopathology. The role of temperament in the etiology of child psychopathology peter muris1,3 and thomas h. The aim of the present study is to explore the longterm contribution of temperamental. Temperament, personality and developmental psychopathology. Temperament and developmental psychopathology nigg.
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