Mothers' personality and its interaction with child temperament as predictors of parenting behavior

In this longitudinal, multimethod investigation, the authors examined mothers' personality and its interaction with infants' negative emotionality as predictors of parenting behavior. When infants were 8-10 months old (N = 112), mothers completed personality self-reports, and the authors o...

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Published inJournal of personality and social psychology Vol. 79; no. 2; p. 274
Main Authors Clark, L A, Kochanska, G, Ready, R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.08.2000
Subjects
Adult
Extraversion (Psychology)
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Individuation
Infant
Iowa
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Maternal Behavior - psychology
Mother-Child Relations
Negativism
Object Attachment
Parenting - psychology
Parenting - trends
Personality
Power (Psychology)
Regression Analysis
Temperament
Iowa
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Summary:In this longitudinal, multimethod investigation, the authors examined mothers' personality and its interaction with infants' negative emotionality as predictors of parenting behavior. When infants were 8-10 months old (N = 112), mothers completed personality self-reports, and the authors observed infants' negative emotionality in both standard procedures and naturalistic daily contexts. When infants were 13-15 months old (N = 108), the authors observed two aspects of parenting, power assertion and maternal responsiveness, in mother-child interactive contexts. Maternal personality alone and also in interaction with child emotionality predicted future parenting behaviors. The longitudinal links established between personality and parenting behaviors indicate the predictive utility of personality. Findings also highlight the bidirectionality of the early parent-child relationship.
ISSN:0022-3514
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.79.2.274