Abstract
We investigated temperament characteristics and their goodness of fit as potentially important moderators of adjustment in children with congenital physical disabilities. The mothers of fifty 6-to 11-year-olds with spina bifida or cerebral palsy completed questionnaires designed to separately assess their children's and their own temperament along five dimensions (activity, distractibility, adaptability/approach, rhythmicity, and reactivity) and their children's adjustment in three areas (internalizing behavior problems, externalizing behavior problems, and social competence). We found disabled children's adjustment to be significantly worse than that of a normative comparison group. We also found significant multivariate relationships between child temperament (but not maternal temperament) and child adjustment. However, knowledge of maternal rhythmicity enhanced predictions of some child adjustment dimensions beyond that afforded by salient child temperament dimensions. The goodness-of-fit model, in whi...
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