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Developmental Research of Twin's Temperament

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Adam P. Matheny Jr.
Adam P. Matheny Jr.*
Affiliation:
Louisville Twin Study, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Kentucky
*
Louisville Twin Study, Department of Pediatrics, Health Sciences Center, University of Louisville, Louisville KY 40292, USA

Abstract

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In the Louisville Twin Study, pairs of 3- and 4-year-old twins were provided with standardized competitive or cooperative tasks in a laboratory setting. Some tasks required a pair of twins to share toys; other fostered a more competitive engagement between the twins. Behavioral ratings identified temperament and social components at both ages, and between the two ages, there were transformations in the links between the components. Parental ratings of the twins' temperament at the same ages were moderately correlated with the laboratory observations, but the pattern of the relations changed from one age to the next. The combined sets of measures were subjected to twin analyses for 43 pairs of twins. The results are discussed in terms of the similarity of MZ and DZ pairs for the dimensions of temperament and the transformations of temperament.

Keywords

TemperamentLongitudinal studyParental ratingTwin concordance
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 135 - 143
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1987

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