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‘Difficult temperament’ linked to preschooler mental health problems: BELLA study
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30213
Subject(s) - temperament , mental health , psychology , socioeconomic status , bella , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , personality , environmental health , population , physics , nuclear physics
The single most important risk factor for preschool mental health problems is a difficult temperament, researchers have found. If parents perceive themselves as competent, their preschool‐aged children are less likely than others to have mental health problems. After controlling for other factors, parental mental health problems and low socioeconomic status did not increase the child's likelihood of mental health problems.