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

• Published in: Journal of personality and social psychology Vol. 79; no. 2; p. 274
• Main Authors: Clark, L A, Kochanska, G, Ready, R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...