Heather A. Henderson

TL;DR: The current chapter reviews areas of research on behavioral inhibition and provides an integrative account of the broad impact of behavioral inhibition research.

TL;DR: Four-month temperament was modestly predictive of behavioral inhibition over the first 2 years of life and of behavioral reticence at age 4 and change in behavioral inhibition was related to experience of nonparental care.

TL;DR: Findings suggesting that stable maternal-reported early BI predicts lifetime SAD have important implications for the early identification and prevention of SAD.

TL;DR: Internalizing problems at age 4 were greatest among behaviorally inhibited children who also were exposed to permissive parenting and greater authoritative parenting was associated with less of an increase in internalizing behavior problems over time and greater authoritarian parenting wasassociated with a steeper decline in externalizing problems.

TL;DR: Toddlers with highly fearful temperaments and highly oversolicitous mothers were the most inhibited across contexts, and there was little consistency of inhibited behavior across the 3 situations.