"difficult temperament" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who is easily angered or frustrated, or to describe someone's personality as being hard to understand or manage. For example: "Her difficult temperament made it hard for her to make friends."
He recounts, with perhaps a bit too much detail, his second wife's difficult temperament.
Mothers with prenatal negative preconceptions were more likely to report a difficult temperament in their six-month-old.
Children may come into the world with a difficult temperament, but if the parents are not able to adapt, there can be a negative impact on healthy development.
A fair proportion of his business associates turned out to be scoundrels or mischief-makers; others turned against him through sheer weariness with his difficult temperament.
In these studies, when the baby was independently measured as being born with a relatively difficult temperament (eg fussy, irritable), abuse was more likely.
Over the next several years, with Hopper's difficult temperament stalling his acting career, making paintings, sculpture and photographs "kept him thinking and alive," said Ms. Hopper, who bears a striking resemblance to her father.
Our research — as well as plenty of others' — has shown that these babies are more likely to have difficult temperaments and to experience feeding and sleeping problems..
Our research — as well as plenty of others' — has shown that these babies are more likely to have difficult temperaments and to experience feeding and sleeping problems...
That roster of chefs is probably unknown to you, but as White himself explains, they were the top of the heap in 1980s London, the kings of British fine dining, with difficult temperaments to match.
Some babies demonstrate intense or difficult temperaments from a very early age [ 20 ].
Bradley and Corwyn (2008) found that children with more difficult temperaments were more susceptible to the influence of sensitive maternal parenting, showing a decrease in the levels of externalising problems, while children with an easy temperament did not.
