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Temperament and Goodness of Fit

Implications for Developmental Psychopathology

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Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology

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The style of infant and child behavior is a nexus where many factors affecting normative and pathological development converge, providing a unique opportunity for understanding a variety of children’s pathways through development. During the past 40 years, temperament in infants and children has been a focus of normative work in human development and has been advanced as a potential contributor to psychopathology in children and adolescents. As such, it is an ideal focus of those interested in pursuing the developmental psychopathology agenda. Of particular interest is the extension of temperament to the relationship processes between children and their caregivers, particularly during the first years of life. In this chapter, I provide a brief overview of issues addressed by temperament researchers, review knowledge about basic developmental phenomena related to temperament, identify empirical evidence that temperament is associated with incompetence and/or psychopathology, and discuss goodnessof-fit models as a coherent framework for understanding the interplay of infant characteristics and parental behavior in the context of explaining variations in developmental outcomes.

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