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This study explored temperament structure using the Adult Temperament Questionnaire. A two-factor model, differing from prior personality trait models, emerged, encompassing positive emotionality and negative affect versus effortful control.

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Psychology
Personality Science

Background:

Temperament research often links to the Big Five personality traits.
Previous models proposed higher-order structures for personality traits.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the higher-order structure of temperament.
To test a two-factor temperament model based on Digman's personality trait model.
To identify alternative higher-order temperament structures.

Main Methods:

Two studies utilized the Adult Temperament Questionnaire (ATQ).
Study 1 (N=258 undergraduates) involved exploratory factor analysis.
Study 2 (N=700 community sample) used confirmatory factor analysis.

Main Results:

Digman's higher-order model did not fit the temperament data well.
An alternative two-factor model emerged, comprising positive emotionality/extraversion and negative affect/effortful control.
This model showed divergence from Digman's model in agreeableness-affiliativeness loadings.

Conclusions:

The findings support a distinct two-factor structure for temperament.
This structure relates to attention and emotion research.
The study refines understanding of temperament's higher-order organization.