Childhood temperament and mother's child-rearing attitudes: stability and interaction in a three-year follow-up study

Abstract

Stability and interactions between children's behavioural styles (i.e. the temperament dimensions sociability, negative emotionality, and activity) and maternal child-rearing attitudes were studied in a random sample of 507 three-year-old children over a threeyear interval. Structural equation modelling indicated low to moderate stability for children's temperament dimensions and mothers' child-rearing attitudes. In addition, gender-specific interactions were found. In boys, negative emotionality and low sociability potentiated a strict disciplinary style of the mother, whereas activity was more likely to be stimulated by a mother's low tolerance towards the child. By contrast, in girls a mother's strict disciplinary style predicted negative emotionality and low sociability, whereas the girl's activity predicted a strict disciplinary style of the mother. These findings underline the close interaction between temperament and mothering during childhood.

Cumulative Effect of Psychosocial Factors in Youth on Ideal Cardiovascular Health in Adulthood

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Hyperactivity in childhood as a predictor of school performance in elementary school: modifying effect of a serotonin receptor gene (5-HTR2A)

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