Interactive influence of genetic and environmental factors on infant temperament

GU Fei; YANG Kai-di; LEI Xue-mei

doi:10.11852/zgetbjzz2018-1728

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Chinese Journal of Child Health Care ›› 2019, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (9) : 971-974. DOI: 10.11852/zgetbjzz2018-1728

Interactive influence of genetic and environmental factors on infant temperament

GU Fei, YANG Kai-di, LEI Xue-mei

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Temperament is a construct comprising tonic individual differences in dispositional physiological and behavioral reactions,such as attentional,motor and emotional reactivity,as well as an evolving ability to regulate to environmental conditions.Infant temperament could predict some psychological and behavioral problems during childhood and adulthood.Some specific genes and a variety of environmental factors,such as prenatal environment and family environment,have been found to play important roles in infant temperament.The interactions of genetic and environmental factors modulate the developmental trajectory from infant temperament to stable psychological traits,which implicates that infant temperament has both stability and plasticity during development.However,the underlying physiological and psychological mechanisms of this gene-environment interaction remain unclear,where further researches should pay more attention.

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temperament / stability / gene-environment interaction / infants

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GU Fei, YANG Kai-di, LEI Xue-mei. Interactive influence of genetic and environmental factors on infant temperament[J]. Chinese Journal of Child Health Care. 2019, 27(9): 971-974 https://doi.org/10.11852/zgetbjzz2018-1728

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