Citation

Jewsuwan R, Luster T, Kostelnik M. Early Child Res. Q. 1993; 8(1): 33-51.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0885-2006(05)80097-3

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The central questions addressed in this article are: (1) Do parents' perceptions of children's temperament, as assessed with the Colorado Childhood Temperament Inventory, predict children's behavioral adjustment in preschool? and (2) Do parents and teachers tend to rate the children similarly on the various aspects of temperament assessed in this study? To address these questions, data were collected on 35 three- to five-year-old children who were attending preschool for the first time. Children who were well adjusted in the preschool setting were perceived by their parents as being high in sociability and low in emotionality; well-adjusted children also received higher scores on soothability and lower scores on activity level from their mothers. Mothers, fathers, and teachers tended to perceive the children somewhat similarly on three aspects of temperament: sociability, emotionality, and activity level.