temperamentally

temperamental | American Dictionary

temperamental
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˌtem·prəˈmen·təl/
expressive of your emotional character:
a temperamental young man
If a machine is temperamental, it sometimes works and sometimes does not:
Our VCR can be temperamental.

Examples of temperamental

temperamental
1100 sess early temperamental factors that could determine why life adversities can lead to pathological sequelae in some cases, but not in others.
Persons threatened by psychiatric disorder because of temperamental attributes like neuroticism, may remain at risk of somatic problems even if mental illness is averted.
Temperamental vulnerability and negative parenting as interacting predictors of child adjustment.
Consequently, limits on their temperamental style may lead to frustration and aggressive, defiant behavior.
Part of the reason for his obscurity was temperamental.
Parents' ratings of temperamental characteristics did not differ for boys and girls.
All but six of the children had been classified at 4 months as belonging to one of the four infant temperamental groups described earlier.
As noted earlier, a very small number of children with rare temperamental biases display atypical profiles early in life.
However, no set of temperamental characteristics is consistently associated with increased cortisol reactivity.
High and low reactives represent two of the many temperamental types that will be discovered.
The remaining 38% who showed other patterns, belong to other temperamental groups that will not be considered in this article.
Thus, lateralized brain function serves as the foundation, much like temperamental reactivity.
As in much research examining associations between temperamental characteristics and behavioral symptoms, infant negativity was based on maternal perceptions repor ted on a rating scale.
Temperamental characteristics as predictors of externalizing and internalizing child behavior problems in the contexts of high and low parental psychopathology.
There are multiple possible explanations for the discontinuity in this temperamental tendency over time.
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