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This study was designed to assess the intercorrelations between difficult temperament factors and self-rating psychiatric symptoms in Chinese early adolescents. The study subjects completed the Chinese Adolescent Temperament Self-Rating Questionnaire and Brief Psychiatric Symptom Rating Scale. Results revealed that the group of subjects with two or more difficult temperament factors showed significantly higher scores in some of self-rating psychiatric symptoms. In addition to difficult temperament factors, low score of task orientation and tactile threshold also appeared to be risk factors for self perceived psychiatric symptoms in the Chinese adolescents.
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Lee, YC., Chen, YS., Yang, CH. et al. The Correlations Between the Difficult Temperament and Subjective Psychiatric Symptoms in Chinese Early Adolescents. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 31, 129–137 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001996526248
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