ArticleJournal of personality2022
Negative internal working models as mechanisms that link mothers' and fathers' personality with their parenting: A short-term longitudinal study.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis of parental mentalization in fathers and mothers.Infant mental health journal · 2025Pooled it
- Multifinality in pathways from early ecological adversity to children's future self-regulation: Elucidating mechanisms, moderators, and their developmental timing.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Mothers' and Fathers' Personality, Infants' Anger Proneness, and Responsive Parenting.Journal of child and family studies · 2025Article
- The parent's and the child's internal working models of each other moderate cascades from child difficulty to socialization outcomes: Preliminary evidence for dual moderation?Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Elucidating mechanisms linking mothers' and fathers' mind-mindedness in infancy with children's self-regulation at early preschool age.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2024Article
- Mothers' Attachment Style Predicts Response to Child Distress: The Role of Maternal Emotions and Attributions.Journal of child and family studies · 2023Article
- Negative internal working models as mechanisms that link mothers' and fathers' personality with their parenting: A short-term longitudinal study.Journal of personality · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveResearch on associations between parents' personality and parenting has a long history, but mechanisms that explain them remain unsettled. We examined parents' explicit and implicit negative internal working models (IWMs) of the child, assessed at toddler age, as linking parental personality and parenting.
methodMothers and fathers from 200 community families provided personality self-reports (Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Empathy, and Anger/Hostility) when their children were infants. When children were toddlers, the explicit negative IWMs included self-reported low-mentalizing reflective functioning and resentment regarding the child. The implicit negative IWMs were coded as negative relational schemas from parental interviews. Parental positive affect, responsiveness, and power-assertive control were observed in lengthy interactions. Measures were parallel for mother- and father-child dyads.
resultsMothers' implicit IWMs linked the association between low Empathy and more power-assertive control. Fathers' explicit IWMs linked the associations between high Neuroticism and low Agreeableness and lower responsiveness. Additionally, fathers' Agreeableness and Empathy directly predicted their parenting. Two paths (Agreeableness → implicit IWMs, and explicit IWMs → responsiveness) significantly differed between mothers and fathers.
conclusionsIWMs may link parental personality with parenting. The findings integrate and inform several bodies of literature in personality, social cognition, and developmental psychology.
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