difficult temperament

collocation in English

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difficult
adjective
uk /ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/ us /ˈdɪf.ə.kəlt/
needing skill ...
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temperament
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈtem.pər.ə.mənt/ us /ˈtem.pɚ.ə.mənt/
the part of your character that affects your moods and the way ...
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Examples of difficult temperament

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High scores on the infant temperament measures indicate more difficulttemperament.
What characterizes children with neurodevelopmental impairment and difficulttemperament?
Disorganized attachment cannot be considered to be the consequence of a difficulttemperament either.
Is difficulttemperament during infancy an expression of biological tendencies or the result of prior parenting?
Scale scores for difficulttemperament were computed by averaging item scores.
A second cluster of only 6 boys (5%) represented a child-risk group, with elevated scores only on difficulttemperament, pregnancy or delivery complications, and ratings of hyperactivity and aggression.
Higher ratings represent more difficulttemperament.
Certainly the data from the report are more consistent with the latter than former explanation of why difficulttemperament might be, in some work, predictive of later problem behavior.
There is no reason to assume that disorganized attachment is the consequence of the infant's difficulttemperament.
When we combined paternal and maternal reports into a single construct reflecting fussy/ difficulttemperament, this association was no longer significant.
The fact that difficulttemperament has been linked with the development of problem behavior clearly makes it a defining feature of any contextual analysis of developmental psychopathology.
Given these characteristics, we expected that children with an easy temperament will show larger improvement of problem behavior across the year following referral than children characterized by a difficulttemperament.
Specifically, they found that infants with a difficulttemperament at 5 months were likely to show self-recognition and embarrassment earlier than infants with an easy temperament.
The manifest psychological phenotype is dysregulation; this is sequentially manifest during development as difficulttemperament, conduct problems, and antisociality in conjunction with irritability, emotional liability, and negative affect.
Because only a subset of children with difficulttemperament go on to develop chronic behavior problems, it becomes important to consider, as well, the role of socialization.
For example, parent psychopathology or child difficulttemperament may partially mediate the link between domestic violence and child adaptation in the roles as phenotypical markers of genetic transmission.
The theory hypothesizes that neuropsychological deficits and difficulttemperament result in interactions between the person and his or her environment that promote and sustain antisocial behavior.
Children from domestically violent homes experience wide variability in the manifestation of difficulttemperament characteristics, prior histories of psychological vulnerability, and difficulties in resolving stagesalient tasks.
For 12- to 23-month-olds, difficulttemperament was the sum of the positive affect and friendliness subscales (reverse scored) and the fearfulness subscale.
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