The relation between parental personality and observed parenting: The moderating role of preschoolers’ effortful control

Annemiek Karreman; C. van Tuijl; M.A.G. van Aken; M. Deković

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The relation between parental personality and observed parenting: The moderating role of preschoolers’ effortful control

Annemiek Karreman, C. van Tuijl, M.A.G. van Aken, M. Deković

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In this study, the relation between self-reported parental personality, using the five-factor model, and observed parenting was examined. In addition, we investigated the moderating role of observed preschoolers’ temperamental effortful control (i.e., the ability to suppress a dominant response in order to perform a subdominant response) in this relation. The sample included 89 two-parent families and their firstborn 36-month-old children. Weak to modest associations were found between personality and observed parenting. Effortful control appeared to moderate the relation between parental personality and parenting: fathers’ neuroticism was positively associated with fathers’ positive control and fathers’ extraversion was positively associated with fathers’ negative control, but only when children had a low level of effortful control. Thus, individual differences in personality appeared to be most relevant during the demanding experience of parenting a less self-regulated child.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	723-734
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	44
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.005
Publication status	Published - 2008

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