Predicting your child's personality as an adult

A baby’s temperament could be an indicator of their personality as an adult. — AFP

New American research has found that a baby’s personality at around 14 months could predict what their character will be like as adults.

Carried out by researchers at the University of Maryland, the Catholic University of America and the US National Institutes of Mental Health, the new study looked at 165 babies when they were 14 months of age to assess a specific type of temperament among the babies, called behavioural inhibition (BI).