Temperament A Psychological Perspective /

• Main Author: Strelau, Jan. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Perspectives on Individual Differences
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.
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Temperament is the first monograph in 40 years to present theories and basic findings in the field of temperament from a broad international and interdisciplinary perspective. The text, based on the author's four decades of personal study and data collection, thoroughly explores the physiologic...

Table of Contents:

• The History and Understanding of the Concept of Temperament
• The Initiators of Contemporary Research on Temperament
• Current Theories of Temperament
• Physiological and Biochemical Correlates of Temperament
• Behavior-Genetic Research on Temperament
• Assessment of Temperament: Diagnosis and Methodological Issues
• The Functional Significance of Temperament.