Explorations in Temperament

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Jan Strelau, Alois Angleitner

      Pages 1-12

3. Contemporary Conceptualizations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Temperament and the Concept of Goodness of Fit

      • Stella Chess, Alexander Thomas

      Pages 15-28

   3. The Functional Significance of Organismic Individuality

      • Rachna Talwar, Katherine Nitz, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Richard M. Lerner

      Pages 29-42

   4. The EAS Theory of Temperament

      • Arnold H. Buss

      Pages 43-60

   5. Temperament

      • Mary Klevjord Rothbart

      Pages 61-74

   6. Outline of a General Emotion-Based Theory of Temperament

      • Albert Mehrabian

      Pages 75-86

   7. Dimensions of Personality

      • Hans J. Eysenck

      Pages 87-103

   8. The Neuropsychology of Temperament

      • Jeffrey A. Gray

      Pages 105-128

   9. Biotypes for Basic Personality Dimensions?

      • Marvin Zuckerman

      Pages 129-146

   10. Biochemical Variables in the Study of Temperament

       • Petra Netter

       Pages 147-161

   11. Temperament and the Person-Situation Debate

       • Guus L. Van Heck

       Pages 163-175

   12. The Concepts of Personality and Temperament

       • Willem K. B. Hofstee

       Pages 177-188

4. Diagnostic and Methodological Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. What Can We Learn from the Discussion of Personality Questionnaires for the Construction of Temperament Inventories?

      • Alois Angleitner, Rainer Riemann

      Pages 191-204

   3. Questionnaire Measurement of Infant and Child Temperament

      • Elizabeth H. Slabach, Judy Morrow, Theodore D. Wachs

      Pages 205-234

   4. Mother-Father Agreement in Temperament Ratings

      • Roy P. Martin, Charles F. Halverson Jr.

      Pages 235-248

   5. Contemporary Instruments for Assessing Early Temperament by Questionnaire and in the Laboratory

      • H. H. Goldsmith, Mary Klevjord Rothbart

      Pages 249-272

   6. Reactivity and Anxiety in the Laboratory and Beyond

      • Paul M. Kohn

      Pages 273-286

The growing interest in research on temperament during the last decade has been re­ corded by several authors (e. g. , R. Plomin; J. E. Bates) from such sources of informa­ tion as the Social Sciences Citation Index or Psychological Abstracts. The editors' inquiry shows that the number of cases in which the term temperament was used in the title of a paper or in the paper's abstract published in Psychological Abstracts reveals an essential increase in research on temperament. During the years 1975 to 1979, the term temperament was used in the title and/or summary of 173 abstracts (i. e. , 34. 6 publications per year); during the next five years (1980-1984), it was used in 367 abstracts (73. 4 publications per year), whereas in the last five years (1985 to 1989), the term has appeared in 463 abstracts, that is, in 92. 6 publications per year. Even if the review of temperament literature is restricted to those abstracts, it can easily be concluded that temperament is used in different contexts and with different meanings, hardly allowing any comparisons or general statements. One of the consequences of this state of affairs is that our knowledge on temperament does not cumulate despite the increasing research activity in this field. This situation in temperament research motivated the editors to organize a one­ week workshop on The Diagnosis of Temperament (Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany, September 1987).

• Extraversion
• Temperament
• emotion
• knowledge
• neuropsychology
• personality
• psychology

• University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

  Jan Strelau

• University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

  Alois Angleitner

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