The Fruits of Their Labors: A Longitudinal Exploration of Parent Personality and Adjustment in Their Adult Children

Solomon, Marjorie

doi:10.1111/1467-6494.00098

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“…Thus, the present findings substantiate previous indications of a positive association between parental warmth and adolescent psychological adjustment and coping, as well as parents' behavioural control and their children's selfregulation and compliance, which lead to better mental health (Aunola & Nurmi, 2005, Barber et al, 1994, Buschgens et al, 2010, Solomon, 2000, Yap & Jorm, 2015. The combination of both parenting dimensions (i.e., warmth and behavioural control) has been proposed as particularly supportive of adolescent mental health by different studies (this combination has been termed "authoritative parenting"; Calders et al, 2020, Steinberg, 2001.…”

Section: Parenting and Adolescent Mental Health Problemssupporting

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A Lot of Warmth and a Bit of Control? How Parenting Mediates the Relationship Between Parental Personality and Their Children’s Mental Health Problems

Cohrdes

Göbel

2022

J Child Fam Stud

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Research has identified parental personality and parenting behaviour as important contributors to healthy child development. However, indirect associations are largely unknown. The current study aimed to investigate the mediating role of parenting dimension relations between parental personality and adolescent mental health problems. The cross-sectional sample included 4258 German adolescents (48.7% male, 11–17 years) and one parent who participated in a national health survey (KiGGS Wave 2). The results underline and extend previous indications of direct associations between parental personality and their children’s mental health problems by highlighting the adverse role of neuroticism. Furthermore, new insights are added regarding the mediating roles of parenting dimensions (i.e., warmth, behavioural control, and psychological control). Future efforts and parent-focused prevention programmes should be extended by parental personality to identify maladaptive parenting behaviour and thus contribute to the development of their children’s mental health.

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Section: Parenting and Adolescent Mental Health Problemssupporting

confidence: 89%

A Lot of Warmth and a Bit of Control? How Parenting Mediates the Relationship Between Parental Personality and Their Children’s Mental Health Problems

Cohrdes

Göbel

2022

J Child Fam Stud

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“…These observations suggest that parental reflectivity during adolescence paves the way for social adjustment during adulthood (Solomon 2000). However, our findings suggest that parental reflective function might carry both benefits and costs.…”

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The Significance of Parental Reflective Function in the Adjustment of Young Adults

Benbassat

Shulman

2016

J Child Fam Stud

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Reflective function is the capacity to reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings, and those of others. Parental reflective function has been found significant for children's social and emotional development. However, research has mostly been restricted to mothers and to early stages of development, and there is a paucity of observations on the effects of parental reflective function in later stages. The aim of the present study is to explore the significance of mothers' and fathers' reflective function for the adjustment of their children during early adulthood. It is an extension of a previous study that examined the significance of parental reflective function for adolescent adjustment. During home visits, 105 adolescents aged 14-18 years reported on indices of parental behavior (involvement, warmth, and control), and their fathers and mothers were interviewed in order to assess their reflective function. Three to five years later, the participants, now aged 18-22 years, reported on level of symptoms, selfperception, self-descriptions and romantic relations. The findings indicated that parental reflective function, but not parental behaviors that express warmth and control, predicted adjustment during early adulthood. Similar to our previous finding, parental reflective function was associated with both desirable outcomes and possible costs among young adults: higher levels of self-descriptions and romantic relations, on the one hand, and more internalizing problems and less positive self-perception, on the other. It is concluded that parental reflective function affects their children's adjustment also during early adulthood. However, the benefits of reflective function are inextricably linked to its costs.

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“…Researchers have ignored the possibility that E and N might jointly contribute to the quality of child-rearing. Yet, authoritative parents are likely to be characterized not only by high E but also by low N. Empirical evidence has been provided by Solomon (2000) who showed that mothers whose children turned out well adjusted adults were high in gregariousness, perceptiveness, cheerfulness, and self-confidence, whereas they were least characterized as brittle, aloof, over-reactive, frustrated, anxious, or moody. At issue is whether high E in combination with emotional unstability (high N) is related to a particular type(s) of parenting.…”

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Personality traits and parenting: neuroticism, extraversion, and openness to experience as discriminative factors

2003

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This study used variable‐ and person‐oriented approaches to examine the relationship between personality traits (at age 33) and parenting (at age 36) among 94 mothers and 78 fathers. The SEM revealed that Openness to Experience (O), low Neuroticism (N), and Extraversion (E) were related to parental nurturance; low O to parental restrictiveness; and low N to parental knowledge about the child's activities. Cluster analysis based on the three parenting factors yielded six gender‐related parenting types with distinguishable personality profiles. Authoritative parents (mostly mothers) and emotionally involved parents (mostly fathers), who were high in nurturance and high to moderate in parental knowledge, were high in E and high to moderate in O. Authoritarian parents (mostly fathers) and emotionally detached parents (mostly mothers), who were low in nurturance, high to moderate in restrictiveness, and moderate to low in parental knowledge, were low in O and E. Permissive parents, who were low in restrictiveness and parental knowledge and moderate in nurturance, were high in N, E, and O. Engaged parents, who were high in nurturance, restrictiveness, and parental knowledge, were moderate in all personality traits. Agreeableness and Conscientiousness did not differ between the parenting types. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The Fruits of Their Labors: A Longitudinal Exploration of Parent Personality and Adjustment in Their Adult Children

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

A Lot of Warmth and a Bit of Control? How Parenting Mediates the Relationship Between Parental Personality and Their Children’s Mental Health Problems

A Lot of Warmth and a Bit of Control? How Parenting Mediates the Relationship Between Parental Personality and Their Children’s Mental Health Problems

The Significance of Parental Reflective Function in the Adjustment of Young Adults

Personality traits and parenting: neuroticism, extraversion, and openness to experience as discriminative factors

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