ABSTRACT
It is likely that inhibited and uninhibited temperaments make a modest contribution to the later appearance of behaviors clinicians regard as pathological. Diagnosis of psychopathology are based almost completely on patients' verbal descriptions of their feelings and behavior. A similar conclusion holds for estimates of psychopathology. Most students of psychopathology in children agree on two complementary clusters of symptoms that have acquired the names internalizing and externalizing. Although the two temperamental categories contribute a little to the likelihood of later psychiatric symptoms, the more secure prediction from childhood to adolescence and adulthood involves vocational and marital choice and styles of relating to others—in short, to personality rather than to psychopathology. The personality profiles most closely related to inhibited and uninhibited temperaments are introversion and extroversion, and Jung's descriptions of the introvert and extrovert capture likely adult outcomes of the two childhood temperaments.
