Authors
Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Rachel Bernstein, Brenda E Benson, Kristin A Buss, Kelley E Gunther, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Giovanni A Salum, Andrea P Jackowski, Rodrigo A Bressan, André Zugman, Kathryn A Degnan, Courtney A Filippi, Nathan A Fox, Heather A Henderson, Alva Tang, Selin Zeytinoglu, Anita Harrewijn, Manon HJ Hillegers, Tonya White, Marinus H van IJzendoorn, Carl E Schwartz, Julia M Felicione, Kathryn A DeYoung, Alexander J Shackman, Jason F Smith, Rachael M Tillman, Yvonne HM van den Berg, Antonius HN Cillessen, Karin Roelofs, Anna Tyborowska, Shirley Y Hill, Marco Battaglia, Marco Tettamanti, Lea R Dougherty, Jingwen Jin, Daniel N Klein, Hoi-Chung Leung, Suzanne N Avery, Jennifer Urbano Blackford, Jacqueline A Clauss, Elizabeth P Hayden, Pan Liu, Matthew RJ Vandermeer, H Hill Goldsmith, Elizabeth M Planalp, Thomas E Nichols, Paul M Thompson, P Michiel Westenberg, Nic JA van der Wee, Nynke A Groenewold, Dan J Stein, Anderson M Winkler, Daniel S Pine
Publication date
2022/9
Journal
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume
61
Issue
9
Pages
1182
Publisher
NIH Public Access
Description
Temperament involves stable behavioral and emotional tendencies that differ between individuals, which can be first observed in infancy or early childhood and relate to behavior in many contexts and over many years. 1 One of the most rigorously characterized temperament classifications relates to the tendency of individuals to avoid the unfamiliar and to withdraw from unfamiliar people, objects, and unexpected events. This temperament is referred to as behavioral inhibition or inhibited temperament (IT). 2 IT is a moderately heritable trait1 that can be measured in multiple species. 3 In humans, levels of IT can be quantified from the first year of life through direct behavioral observations or reports by caregivers or teachers. Similar approaches as well as self-report questionnaires on current and/or retrospective levels of IT1 can be used later in life.
Variations in IT are present on a continuous scale within the …
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