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RESEARCH NOTE: TEMPERAMENT AND BEHAVIOUR IN SIX‐YEAR‐OLDS WITH RECURRENT ABDOMINAL PAIN: A FOLLOW UP
Author(s) -
Davison I.S.,
Faull C.,
Nicol A. R.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1986.tb00640.x
Subject(s) - temperament , psychology , abdominal pain , personality , developmental psychology , style (visual arts) , clinical psychology , medicine , surgery , social psychology , archaeology , history
Dimensions of temperament and behaviour were measured in a group of infant school children with recurrent abdominal pain and in a control group. Children with recurrent abdominal pain were temperamentally more difficult than those without, and in particular, girls were found to have a more irregular temperamental style and boys to be more likely to withdraw in new situations. Temperamental differences were more persistent than the abdominal pain itself. There was little difference behaviouraliy between the groups. It is hypothesized that abdominal pain represents an interaction between a vulnerable temperamental style and environmental stresses.