Temperament

• Earliest way children show that each of them has different personalities with their stable behavioral and emotional characteristics (Ciccarelli & White, 2015)

• The foundation for the development of an individual’s personality traits (McAdams, 2010)

- temperament traits at the age of 3 is closely related to the 0

------- personality that one owns at 26

• Easy = follows a regular routine

• Slow to warm up = need more time to get used to new environments or people, usually after warming up they will be all happy and bubbly again

• Hard = follows an irregular routine

• Childhood temperament trait is a key factor to the development of later personalities

- including mental health, academic performance and adult personality (Strickhouser & Sutin, 2019).