Abstract: The present study investigates the psychometric properties and the factorial structure of the German adaptation of the EAS Temperament Inventory (Buss & Plomin, 1984) in its parental rating form. The 20-item questionnaire measures Emotionality, ...
Summary: Several theories concerning the biological basis of personality emphasize the involvement of neurotransmitter systems. One of these transmitters is serotonin. The present paper summarizes some of the recent findings concerning personality and ...
The relation between temperament, alcohol expectancies, peer-group and alcohol consumption as well as alcohol-related problems in adolescenceSummary:Objective: The purpose of this longitudinal study was to investigate the relationship between ...
Comparing assessment methods of infant emotionalitySummary:Objectives: The concept of infant emotionality (temperament) is frequently used in the fields of developmental psychopathology, developmental psychology, and child and adolescent psychiatry. ...
Temperament and character profiles of female adolescent patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosaSummary:Objective: Based on the personality model outlined by Robert C. Cloninger, studies in adult patient samples demonstrated that according to distinct ...
Psychopathy, temperament and antisocial behaviour in girlsObjective: This study addresses the question whether temperament and character differ between antisocial incarcerated girls with and without psychopathy. Furthermore, it inquires whether this ...
Personality and social responsiveness in autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorderObjectives: This study addresses the question whether personality dimensions differ between children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and ...
German version of the Temperament and Character InventoryAbstract. A short comprehensive description of the theoretical background and of the dimensions of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) is given. - The scores for the internal consistency ...
Within the field of giftedness, “overexcitability” has recently become popular although the validity of the construct has not yet been examined comprehensively. So far, there is no psychometrically tested German questionnaire. Three studies with school ...
Personality psychology: Current state and future prospectsAbstract. It is shown that Personality Psychology is an interdisciplinary and currently highly dynamic field of psychology. This is illustrated exemplarily for six fields of research: (a) ...
Factors influencing face recognition during the first year of lifeAbstract. Shortly after birth infants show a preference for faces over other visual objects and increasingly learn to discriminate and recognize different faces during the first year of ...
The Effect of a Difficult Early Child Temperament on the Quality of Mother – Child Interactions With Psychosocial Risk FactorsAbstract. The quality of the early home learning environment, especially of maternal interaction behavior, strongly influences ...
Risk factors and early precursor symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorderMultiple interacting factors contribute to the pathogenesis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Risk factors of ADHD comprise genetic as well as ...
Fetal programming: The influence of prenatal maternal distress on infant development and temperamentAccording to the concept of fetal programming, prenatal distress has long-lasting consequences on the health of the offspring later in life. The ...
Parallel Assessment of Children’s Self-Regulation and Caregivers’ Coregulation: The IMMA (IMpulse-MAnagement) Questionnaire for1 – 6-Year-OldsAbstract. Whereas newborns largely depend upon their caregivers when trying to ...
Among the criteria for a personality paradigm the following three are the most crucial: biological basis (e. g., genetic contribution to the phenotypic variance), universality (existence of traits in different cultures) and reality (possibility to measure ...
Behavioral genetic studies have demonstrated the heritability of many variables taken to be measures of environment and previously thought to be determined only by environment. It has been also shown that personal variables may determine the appearance of ...
Abstract.Background: Personality and character traits may be a key predisposing factor to consider in the life course of people who are vulnerable to suicide. Aims: The aim of this study is first to explore the ...
Abstract. The aim of this study was to verify if selected temperament traits may be useful as predictors of motor imagery brain-computer interface (BCI) performance. In our experiment, 40 BCI-naive subjects were instructed to imagine the movement of ...
In the present study we investigated the psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Emotion Reactivity Scale (ERS; Nock, Wedig, Holmberg, & Hooley, 2008). A sample of 615 high school students completed the ERS, together with the Adult Temperament ...