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Prospective Associations of Parenting and Childhood Maltreatment with Personality in Adolescent Males
Author(s) -
Cundiff Jenny M.,
Duggan Katherine A.,
Xia Mengya,
Matthews Karen A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12613
Subject(s) - agreeableness , psychology , conscientiousness , neuroticism , personality , extraversion and introversion , big five personality traits , hierarchical structure of the big five , developmental psychology , openness to experience , clinical psychology , longitudinal study , social psychology , medicine , pathology
This longitudinal study examines whether early experiences with caregivers between the ages of 10 and 12 are associated with later adolescent personality at age 16 using both parent and child reports. Lower positive parenting was prospectively associated with higher neuroticism and lower extraversion and conscientiousness for both parent and self‐reports of personality, as well as lower openness and agreeableness by parent report. Substantiated maltreatment was prospectively associated with greater neuroticism and lower agreeableness and conscientiousness assessed by parent report. Prospective associations were similar across Black and White participants. Positive parenting and, to a lesser extent, a lack of maltreatment were associated with adaptive personality profiles in adolescents, and associations were stronger for parent reports of personality.