This chapter presents a review of applications of structural equation modeling (SEM)
published in psychological research journals in recent years. We focus first on the variety of …

Most temperament theories presume a biological basis to those behavioral tendencies
thought to be temperamental in origin. Behavioral genetic methods can be used to test this …

You are about to begin a fascinating journey over the last 100 years. This book describes
various ideas that psychologists and other scientists have advanced to explain the human …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

The purpose of this study was to examine the relations of mothers' and fathers' reported
emotion‐related practices to parents' and teachers' reports of third‐to sixth‐grade children's …

The goal of this chapter is to summarize what the author knows about the origins, continuity,
and change of individual differences in personality. The answers are sometimes obvious …

Previous studies have addressed the degree of correspondence between interparental
reports of children's behavior problems, but have not examined the discrepancies in these …

Using samples of twins and singletons totaling 715 individuals, the authors document
heritable influences on various temperamental dimensions during the toddler and …

Although a role for family and parent factors in the development of behavioral problems in
childhood is often acknowledged, the roles of specific parental characteristics in relation to …

A meta-analysis of twin, family and adoption studies was conducted to estimate the
magnitude of genetic and environmental influences on impulsivity. The best fitting model for …