Childhood temperament: Dimensions or types?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1168-1173

  Walters, Glenn D ^a  

^a Psychology Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Difficultness; Fearfulness; Latent structure; Positive affect; Taxometric method; Temperament

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953164484     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.014     Document Type: Review

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