Journal article
Rearing Difficult Children: Parents' Personality and Children's Proneness to Anger as Predictors of Future Parenting
Parenting, science and practice, Vol.10(4), pp.258-273
11/11/2010
DOI: 10.1080/15295192.2010.492038
PMCID: PMC3018753
PMID: 21243035
Abstract
Objective
. This multimethod study of 102 mothers, fathers, and children examined children's difficult temperament as a moderator of the links between parental personality and future parenting.
Design
. Parents described themselves on the Big Five traits and on optimism. Children's difficult temperament was observed at 25 and 38 months in paradigms that assessed proneness to anger. Each parent's responsive, affectively positive parenting was observed in lengthy naturalistic interactions at 67 months.
Results
. Regardless of child temperament, for mothers, low neuroticism, and for fathers, high extraversion, predicted more positive parenting. For difficult, anger-prone children, mothers' low and high optimism and fathers' low and high openness were associated, respectively, with less or more positive parenting.
Conclusions
. Challenges resulting from children's difficult temperaments appear to amplify links between parental personality traits and parenting.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Rearing Difficult Children: Parents' Personality and Children's Proneness to Anger as Predictors of Future Parenting
- Creators
- Jamie L Koenig - University of IowaRobin A Barry - University of IowaGrazyna Kochanska - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Parenting, science and practice, Vol.10(4), pp.258-273
- DOI
- 10.1080/15295192.2010.492038
- PMID
- 21243035
- PMCID
- PMC3018753
- NLM abbreviation
- Parent Sci Pract
- ISSN
- 1529-5192
- eISSN
- 1532-7922
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/11/2010
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213415802771
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