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Thomas and Chess (1977) determined that the goodness of fit, or compatibility between the environment and a child’s temperament, plays a significant role in their adjustment and the likelihood of eventual psychopathology. Poorness of fit occurs when the child’s temperament is not respected or accommodated in their environment. Children’s temperament not only influences the way in which they interact with others, but it also elicits certain reactions from people around them. In addition, parents’ own temperaments affect how they interact with their children. For instance, parents with easy temperaments may better accommodate their child with a difficult temperament, which may mitigate the child’s predisposition for psychopathology. Conversely, parents with difficult temperaments may not be able to adjust to the needs of children who are slow‐to‐warm‐up, and thus perpetuate the poorness of fit between the child’s temperament and their environment (Lamb et al., 1999).