Is parent personality associated with adolescent outcomes for their child? A response surface analysis approach

Abstract

Author NoteThe data to be used in this study are freely available by application at https://www.diw.de/soep and study materials (including all R code) are available at https://osf.io/j8y4x/. There is no funding nor conflicts of interest to report by either author. This is a Stage 2 Registered Report.

Longitudinal within-person variability around personality trajectories.

“…Further, although past work has found that trait-by-trait interactions for mean levels occur relatively infrequently (Vize et al, 2023; Wright & Jackson, 2023d), this indicates little to nothing about the prevalence of interactions between different personality metrics (e.g., levels, changes, within-person variability). Each aspect of personality does not exist in a black box; it coexists with all other aspects and, so it seems, can then differentially manifest in terms of how one behaves and navigates life.…”

Registered Reports with secondary developmental data: Introduction to the special issue

“…Two of the articles relied on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, one to investigate how early caregiver interactions are related to educational attainment, income and employment (Duncan et al, 2024), and the other to compare relations between parental sensitivity and two different methods for assessing attachment (Nivison et al, 2024). Examining parenting from a different perspective, Wright and Jackson (2024) drew from the German Socioeconomic Panel study to test the independent predictive power of parent and child personality traits on a variety of adolescent outcomes (e.g., health, education, family and civic engagement). Several studies focused on the schooling context: Spiegler Taken together, the articles in the current Special Issue highlight both the feasibility and utility of Registered Reports with secondary developmental data.…”

“…Two of the articles relied on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, one to investigate how early caregiver interactions are related to educational attainment, income and employment (Duncan et al, 2024), and the other to compare relations between parental sensitivity and two different methods for assessing attachment (Nivison et al, 2024). Examining parenting from a different perspective, Wright and Jackson (2024) drew from the German Socioeconomic Panel study to test the independent predictive power of parent and child personality traits on a variety of adolescent outcomes (e.g., health, education, family and civic engagement). Several studies focused on the schooling context: Spiegler et al (2024) used the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries to examine how peer victimisation was related to classroom ethnic diversity and teacher interactions; Kim and Sidney (2024) used the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study to examine sources of influences for individual differences in students' academic self‐concept; and Zimmermann et al (2024) used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten class of 2011 to understand how pre‐Kindergarten enrollment was related to indicators of social development across the transition into and out of Kindergarten.…”