Temperament: Theory And Practice

by Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas

Book Overview

In 1956 Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas launched the pioneering New York Longitudinal Study, a systematic investigation into the concept of temperament that has been pursued to the present decade. The findings from this study - that temperamental profiles of infants, children, adolescents, and adults show specific individual behavioral characteristics - are accepted as basic to the psychological mechanism of behavioral functioning. Now, these two...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876308353
• ISBN13: 9780876308356
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"