Journal article
Parents' Personality and Infants' Temperament as Contributors to Their Emerging Relationship
Journal of personality and social psychology, Vol.86(5), pp.744-759
05/2004
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.5.744
PMID: 15161398
Abstract
The authors examined the contributions of infant's temperament and parent's personality to their relationship. In Study 1, 102 infants, mothers, and fathers were studied when infants were 7 months; in Study 2, 112 infants and mothers were followed from 9 to 45 months. Infants' temperament (joy, fear, anger, and attention) was observed in standard temperament paradigms. Parents' personality measures encompassed the Big Five traits and Empathy in Study 1 and Mistrust, Manipulativeness, Aggression, Dependency, Entitlement, and Workaholism in Study 2. Parent-child relationship (shared positive affect and parental responsiveness in Studies 1 and 2 and parental tracking of the infant in Study 1) was observed in naturalistic contexts. In Study 1, mothers' Neuroticism, Empathy, and Conscientiousness and fathers' Agreeableness, Openness, and Extraversion related to the relationship with the infants. All measures of infant temperament also related to the emerging relationship. In Study 2, maternal Mistrust, Manipulativeness, Dependency, and Workaholism predicted the relationship with the child.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Parents' Personality and Infants' Temperament as Contributors to Their Emerging Relationship
- Creators
- Grazyna Kochanska - Department of Psychology, University of IowaAmanda E Friesenborg - Department of Psychology, University of IowaLindsey A Lange - Department of Psychology, University of IowaMichelle M Martel - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of personality and social psychology, Vol.86(5), pp.744-759
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0022-3514.86.5.744
- PMID
- 15161398
- ISSN
- 0022-3514
- eISSN
- 1939-1315
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2004
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213413802771
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