“…Brazilian scholarship on temperament focuses mainly on maternal childrearing (Malhado & Alvarenga, 2012;Melchiori, Alves, Souza, & Bugliani, 2007) or pathological characteristics related to temperament (Fuscaldo, Bisol, & Lara, 2013;Lara, Ottoni, Brusntein, Frozi, & Bisol, 2012;Mochcovitch, Nardi, & Cardoso, 2012;Tavares & Gentil, 2007). However, in Brazil, most temperament tests still lack suffi cient validity evidences and norms to be used with confi dence (Guzzo, Riello, & Primi, 1996;Ito, Gobita, & Guzzo, 2007;Klein, Putnam, & Linhares, 2009).…”