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Continuity and Change in Inhibited and Uninhibited Children
Author(s) -
Pfeifer Marcie,
Goldsmith H.H.,
Davidson Richard J.,
Rickman Maureen
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8624.00484
Subject(s) - impulsivity , psychology , shyness , toddler , inhibitory control , developmental psychology , observational study , behavioral inhibition , cognition , neuroscience , psychiatry , medicine , anxiety
After screening 368 toddlers and selecting 77 into extremely inhibited, extremely uninhibited, and intermediate groups, 63 children (82%) were followed up at 4 and 7 years. Minority subgroups of both the inhibited and uninhibited children showed continuity on outcomes consisting of questionnaire measures of shyness, inhibitory control, and impulsivity, as well as multiepisode observational measures of behavioral inhibition and exuberance. Change from both inhibited and uninhibited status from the toddler age was more common than remaining extremely inhibited or uninhibited, but that change was largely constrained to the middle of the distribution.