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Personality and parenting style in parents of adolescents
Journal of Adolescence, 2010
Since parental personality traits are assumed to play a role in parenting behaviors, the current study examined the relation between parental personality and parenting style among 688 Dutch parents of adolescents in the SMILE study. The study assessed Big Five personality traits and derived parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and uninvolved) from scores on the underlying dimensions of support and strict control. Regression analyses were used to determine which personality traits were associated with parenting dimensions and styles. As regards dimensions, the two aspects of personality reflecting interpersonal interactions (extraversion and agreeableness) were related to supportiveness. Emotional stability was associated with lower strict control. As regards parenting styles, extraverted, agreeable, and less emotionally stable individuals were most likely to be authoritative parents. Conscientiousness and openness did not relate to general parenting, but might be associated with more content-specific acts of parenting. Ó
Influence of parental personality on parenting styles: A scoping review of literature
International Journal of Psychology Sciences, 2021
Background: Parents play an important role in shaping children’s emotional, behavioral and mental health, particularly during the early years of childhood. Authoritative parenting style has been consistently associated with optimal long-term development of children, whereas, authoritarian and permissive parenting styles are associated with a variety of psychopathology in children. Parent’s personality is an important determinant of parenting. However, empirical research studies on association between parental personality and parenting styles are scattered, and little is known about the link between the two. Objective: This paper attempted to summarize available studies that have examined the links between parental personality and parenting style. Method: A scoping review was conducted using the Arksey and O'Malley framework. To identify studies for the present review, a search was conducted in bibliographic databases using the keywords ‘parenting style’ and ‘parent personality’. PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews) checklist was used in reporting findings. Results: The search identified 20 empirical studies that examined the association between parent personality and parenting styles. Overall, there was evidence to associate authoritative parenting positively with personality traits such as higher extraversion, openness and agreeableness, and moderate conscientiousness. Authoritarian and permissive parenting style were associated with higher neuroticism, lower extraversion, openness, and agreeableness, and very high conscientiousness. Conclusion: Theoretical and clinical implications of the findings are discussed.
Longitudinal impact of parental and adolescent personality on parenting
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012
This study provides a test of how personality may shape social behaviors in a long-lasting dyad: the parent-adolescent relationship. In a large Belgian community sample, it was examined which parent Big Five characteristics were related to parenting and whether adolescent Big Five characteristics elicited certain parenting behaviors. Further, the proposition that individual differences are amplified under stress was examined by exploring whether parent personality was differentially related to parenting for parents of "easy" versus "difficult" adolescents. Moreover, possible differences in associations across parental and adolescent gender were explored. Mothers (N ϭ 467) and fathers (N ϭ 428) reported on their personality using the Five-Factor Personality Inventory; adolescents (N ϭ 475) assessed their personality with the Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children. Two types of parenting behaviors, overreactive discipline and warmth, were assessed 2 years later by parent self-reports, partner reports, and adolescent reports, from which multi-informant latent factors were created. Results indicate that parental personality was more relevant than adolescent personality for explaining overreactivity, but parent and adolescent personality were similarly relevant in explaining warmth. Especially parental and adolescent Agreeableness and adolescent Extraversion were important predictors of both types of parenting. Associations between parental personality and parenting were similarly related to parents of easy versus difficult adolescents, and for mothers and fathers parenting daughters or sons. Together, results show that parent characteristics as well as adolescent characteristics importantly affect dysfunctional and adaptive parenting.
Personality and Individual Differences, 2012
We investigated fathers' personality and its interaction with children's personality as predictors of adolescent perceived parenting behavior. Data were used from the Flemish Study on Parenting, Personality and Development including 353 children. At Time 1 fathers rated their personality whereas teachers rated the child's personality. Six years later, adolescents rated their fathers' parenting. Higher levels of paternal Emotional Stability were associated with less perceived overreactive and more positive parenting behaviors only when children were high on Extraversion, Benevolence, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Imagination. This study is of theoretical interest because the results demonstrate that different forms of parenting are associated with goodness-of-fit relations between parent and child personality and that these relations are different for negative and positive parenting.
Comparison of Personality among Mothers with Different Parenting Styles
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry, 2018
Objective: Mothers have an important role in child- rearing, and maternal personality has theoretically been considered as the most influential factor determining the parenting style, because it is thought to affect parental behavior. However, the influence of personality on parenting styles has received surprisingly little attention. The aim of the present study was to compare personality components among mothers with authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting styles. Method : Using a multistage random cluster sampling method, we selected 8 kindergartens in Tehran. The sample consisted of 270 mothers with preschool children aged 4 to 6 who completed the NEO and Parental Authority Style Questionnaire. Results: Results revealed significant differences among the authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive styles in personality characteristics. There were significant differences between groups in extraversion (f(2,267) = 151.65, p≤0.0001 ), agreeableness (f(2,267)=215.23, p...
The Effect of Parenting Styles on Personality: A Review of Literature
International Journal of Advanced Research, 2021
The influence of parents on childs development is extremely important. The impact a parent and family has on an individual is the foremost indicator of the holistic personality of that individual. Several researches are evident to the aspect that parental styles are very crucial factor that influences an adolescents behaviour, also the academic success besides other factors. Literature accords that based on Baumrinds model of Parenting Styles, authoritative parenting style is the most efficient in enhancing the academic achievement. Also that Permissive and neglectful parenting styles are the indicator styles for the abuse of alcohol among the adolescents and young adults. Thus the scope of this literature review is to filter out the significant factors influencing an individuals personality by assessing the aspects of academic achievement and alcohol use in accordance to parenting styles.
Effect of Parenting Style and parental treatment on child's Personality: Exploring Some Factors
Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR)
Present paper attempts to explore the effect of parenting styles and treatment on the child's personality. Importance of the subject and insufficient literature on parenting and personality as well as lack of combined studies of parenting with other psychosocial factors led to this paper. Through this paper we explore the impact of appropriate parenting styles and differential treatment the child receive as a result of some factors such as the birth orders, have a direct or indirect effect on one's personality. Major objectives of the paper include determining effect of Parenting Style and parental treatment on child's Personality, and the various factors that impact personality of an individual. The Brief HEXACO Inventory was employed to assess personality of a child. In addition, Sibling Inventory of Differential Experience (SIDE) to study the differential treatments, Parents as Social Context Questionnaire (Child Report) to explore how parenting styles affect personality. A total of 342 individuals between the age ranges of 17 to 25 participated in the study. Correlation Analysis and Regression Analysis was conducted on the data. It was concluded that several factors affect a child's personality which include but are not limited to the objectives taken up in this paper. It was determined that these factors play an essential role in the development of personality of an individual. IndexTerms-Parenting style, parenting treatment, child's personality, birth order RESEARCH CONTEXT Effects of Parenting styles and parental treatment on personality Psychologists, researchers and academia continue to work on parenting styles and its possible effects on children, outlining a variety of parenting styles over the years. Regardless of several researches, there is still no consensus over the right parenting style, with a majority of parents using trial and error to raise their children. According to Baumrind (1971)there are three basic parenting styles i.e. authoritarian, authoritative and permissivestyles that impact a child's personality while research by Hosokawa and Katsura (2018) suggests that ineffective discipline in children can be attributed to authoritarian and permissive parenting styles. Psychological researches mention assorted parenting styles and how it impacts the child(Fujiwara, Kato and Sanders, 2011), while a recent study stated that personality traits and perception towards parents are formed in adolescence itself therefore parents and teachers should raise adolescents consciously and help develop positive personality traits in them, also implying the need for educating public about different parenting styles and howpositive and negative parenting can affect individuals (Adlakha et al, 2018). Apart from parenting styles, the manner children in the same family are treated differently by their parents also plays a vital role. A study showed significant differential parental control between first and last born children of the same families (Mofrad and Uba, 2014).A research that examined the role of parenting styles with respect to adolescents' sleep patterns and symptoms of depression and anxiety concluded that there was high overlap between parenting styles of both parents, though with a different relation to adolescents' sleep. Adverse parenting styles were highly correlated with low sleep quality, negative mood, increased daytime sleepiness, and with increased symptoms of anxiety and depression. Adolescents with low positive and high negative parenting styles displayed the most unfavourable sleep-related personality traits showing that negative parenting styles affects personality negatively (Hatzinger, 2009) while another research revealed different patterns of parent differential treatment for siblings which depended on their age as well as gender (McHale et. al. 2001). Literature review elaborates the role of not only parenting styles but also how children of the same family are treated and its impact on their personality among other factors but most of these researches were conducted in the late 1900s, for example a study showed that mothers show more response, control and expressive behaviour towards their younger born rather than older born and this differential treatment from parents, especially mothers can lead to a higher level of negativity and conflict amongst siblings (Brody et. al. 1987). In most families, parents have been seen to treat their children differently based on their age (Maccoby and Martin, 1983).
The relations between parents’ Big Five personality factors and parenting: A meta-analytic review
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2009
To investigate the association between Big Five personality factors and three dimensions of parentingwarmth, behavioral control, and autonomy support-the authors conducted meta-analyses using 5,853 parent-child dyads that were included in 30 studies. Effect sizes were significant and robust across mother and father reports and across assessment methods of parenting (self-report versus observations) but were generally small in magnitude. Higher levels of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness and lower levels of Neuroticism were related to more warmth and behavioral control, whereas higher levels of Agreeableness and lower levels of Neuroticism were related to more autonomy support. Several factors moderated the relationship between specific personality dimensions and parenting: child and parental age, reliability of observational assessment of parenting behavior, and study design. Taken together, these results indicate that personality can be seen as an inner resource that affects parenting.
Journal of Adolescence, 2002
The concurrent correlates and developmental antecedents of personality types were investigated in a sample of 305 14-19-year-old Dutch adolescents. Concurrent characteristics and developmental antecedents included adjustment and parental control. We also examined whether parental control interacted with personality type in exaggerating differences among the types. The three main personality types (Resilients, Overcontrollers, and Undercontrollers) with behavioral and parenting correlates and antecedents were identified. We also found evidence for a moderator effect of restrictive control, particularly for Undercontrollers. Discussion highlights the importance of the family environment in understanding behavioral correlates of types. r