What is it about?
This study compared parent-reported Child Behavior Questionnaire outcomes for children with Down syndrome (ages 4-11), preterm children (age 5), and typically developing kindergarteners (ages 5-7), analysing group mean levels and factor structures.
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Why is it important?
Children with Down syndrome demonstrated lower levels of attentional focusing, inhibitory control, and sadness compared to typically developing children. Additionally, the emotional trait of "surgency" was more pronounced among children with Down syndrome.
Perspectives
The primary difference in mean temperament scores between the premature children and the control group was that the former demonstrated lower levels of attentional focussing. The temperament structures observed in these Norwegian samples closely matched those found in previous studies from China and the US.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Temperament in children with Down syndrome and in prematurely born children, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, February 2002, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00269.
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