Cultural Studies: *Cultural Differences: Foreign Countries: *individual Differences: *Personality:

This study of children in a Malay community assesses the cross-cultural validity of ore conceptualization of temperament, iie,tifies cultural differences in child rearing practices and beliefs, and explores parents ' recognition of individual differences emerging in early childhood. The community studied consisted of three c'llages located about 20 miles from Kuala Lumpur. Forty child profiles were obtained throuah interviews with 32 families. The questionnaire for profiles of children less that-two years old was based on Carev's temperament questionnaire, developed from studies by-Thomas and Chess. The Thomas and Chess Parent and Teacher Ouestionnaire was used for the profiles of the older children. ResaIts revealed that some of the components of temperament showed similar distributions to those reported for American samples in previous studies while other components showed striking difference