Child/Parent Personality
Longitudinal Impact of Parental and Adolescent Personality on Parenting
Monday, May 14, 2012
1. The article is questioning how personality can shape the social behavior between parent-adolescent relationships. “There is robust evidence that early emerging individual differences in personality shape how people experience and respond to a wide variety of developmental tasks.” (De Haan, A. D., Deković, M., & Prinzie, P. 2012). The researchers scrutinized the Big Five characteristics do further develop data within the study. “This study aimed to improve the knowledge base on how personality shapes behaviors, by examining the relative longitudinal impact of parental Big Five characteristics and adolescent Big Five characteristics on two types of parenting behaviors, measured 2 years later.” (De Haan, A. D., Deković, M., & Prinzie, P. 2012). Researchers have found that child personality characteristics are provoked by behaviors from the environment, due to the direct interrelations between personality characteristics and temperament.
2. The authors, De Haan, Deković, and Prinzie, predicted that the relations of parental personality characteristics are less strongly in correlations to parenting if adolescents have easier personalities. “We expected that, overall, parental personality is more relevant for the explanation of parenting than adolescent personality. (De Haan, A. D., Deković, M., & Prinzie, P. 2012). The researchers also expected that more extraverted parents would display less concentrated discipline.
3. In this study 475 families participated, (467 mothers, 428 fathers) during Time 1. The age of the participants was a mean range, with various educational levels among the parents. During Time 2, the participants of the study consisted of 427 families, (421 mothers, 393 fathers and 427 adolescents). Participants, who took part in both Time 1 and Time 2, did not differ significantly from participants who did not
Monday, May 14, 2012
1. The article is questioning how personality can shape the social behavior between parent-adolescent relationships. “There is robust evidence that early emerging individual differences in personality shape how people experience and respond to a wide variety of developmental tasks.” (De Haan, A. D., Deković, M., & Prinzie, P. 2012). The researchers scrutinized the Big Five characteristics do further develop data within the study. “This study aimed to improve the knowledge base on how personality shapes behaviors, by examining the relative longitudinal impact of parental Big Five characteristics and adolescent Big Five characteristics on two types of parenting behaviors, measured 2 years later.” (De Haan, A. D., Deković, M., & Prinzie, P. 2012). Researchers have found that child personality characteristics are provoked by behaviors from the environment, due to the direct interrelations between personality characteristics and temperament.
2. The authors, De Haan, Deković, and Prinzie, predicted that the relations of parental personality characteristics are less strongly in correlations to parenting if adolescents have easier personalities. “We expected that, overall, parental personality is more relevant for the explanation of parenting than adolescent personality. (De Haan, A. D., Deković, M., & Prinzie, P. 2012). The researchers also expected that more extraverted parents would display less concentrated discipline.
3. In this study 475 families participated, (467 mothers, 428 fathers) during Time 1. The age of the participants was a mean range, with various educational levels among the parents. During Time 2, the participants of the study consisted of 427 families, (421 mothers, 393 fathers and 427 adolescents). Participants, who took part in both Time 1 and Time 2, did not differ significantly from participants who did not