Temperament Profile Essay

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In this article, there was a study that looked at the type and stability of temperament profiles in toddlers and if positive or negative parenting has any contributions to that. 96 mothers and their children ages 2-4 participated in a latent profile analysis, where mothers rated four times throughout that year there activity level, sociability and anger proneness. There were three temperament profiles that stood out from those results. First we have a well-adjusted "typical" profile, which means those children was prone to anger, have lower levels of social fear and low activity level. Next you have the "expressive" profile with higher levels of externalization problems. Those children have lower levels of social fear but higher levels of …show more content…

There were between 68 and 75% of children profiles that did not change over consecutive time points. Only 72% stayed at their same profile at the first and fourth time point. Then finally 50% have lower stability across the year. So most children's profiles did not change over a course of a year. One reason is because as children grow older, their path of development is set and change is not as common. However there was change when it came to parenting. The typical profile related to more positive parenting, whereas the expressiveness profile was from less positive parenting and the fearful profile was a combination of less positive and negative parenting. So the more positive parenting the lower level of temperament characteristics there will be in your child. The study also looked to see if in fact if parenting was changed, would it change the level of temperament profile. It was found that an increase typical profile was because there was more positive than negative parenting. While with expressiveness and fearfulness profile, was because of a decrease in positive parenting. All the results in this study find that the more positive parenting involved that there can be changes in the child's temperament. But they need to be done early because the older child. the harder it will be to mold the

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