1. Parental Personality, Stress Generation, and Infant Temperament in Emergent Parent-Child Relationships: Evidence for a Moderated Mediation Model
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Sara Casalin, Nicole Vliegen, Eileen Tang, and Patrick Luyten
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Longitudinal study ,Extraversion and introversion ,Social Psychology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Infant temperament ,Developmental psychology ,Clinical Psychology ,Moderated mediation ,Transactional leadership ,Stress (linguistics) ,Personality ,Temperament ,Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
There is increasing research evidence supporting the assumption that transactional associations between parent and child characteristics need to be taken into account in order to more fully understand the dynamics within emergent parent-child relationships. This study focuses on transactional associations among parental self-criticism and dependency, parenting stress, child temperament, and emotional availability. Data from a two-wave, 1-year longitudinal study in a community sample of 79 first-time parents and their children, followed-up from infancy to toddlerhood, were analyzed within a multilevel moderated mediation framework. Results showed that parental self-criticism and dependency assessed in infancy predicted emotional availability in toddlerhood. Stress generation processes associated with self-criticism and dependency played a central role in these associations. In addition, findings suggested that child extraversion and orienting/regulation capacities may buffer against the negative impact of ...
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- 2014