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Mother's personality, parenting and child's externalizing behavior problems
No full textThe first study, titled “Maternal irritability and aggressive behavior in family context “, aims to extend actual knowledge on the relation between mother Irritability trait and mother aggressive discipline toward her child. It examined the construct validity of the reduced version of Irritability Scale (Caprara et al., 1985) on 200 mother-child dyads from two family Italian context: Rome and Naples.
The first part of the study 1 presents the construct of irritability trait and its relation with aggressive behaviors, it continues by reviewing the main theoretical models for the development of aggressive behavior [Frustration-Aggression Theory (Dollard et al., 1939); Cognitive Neo-Association Theory (Berkowitz, 1989); Social Learning Theory (Bandura, 1971)] and it concludes with a review of studies (experimental, correlational and in familiar contexts) on the relationship between irritability, aggressive behaviors and harsh parenting measures.
The empirical part of the study, first analyzes the internal validity of Irritability Scale (Caprara et al., 1985) in family contexts: it confirms mono-factorial structure and reveals partial invariance between samples. Then, adopting a multi-informant approach, the study confirms construct validity, showing positive associations among maternal irritability and mother’s physical aggression, verbal aggression, and hostility-rejection.
The second study, titled “Trait and state variance of mother’s irritability and mother’s harsh parenting in two italian samples”, is a longitudinal study that aims to estimate the effects of situation and trait on irritability and to examine the relation between mother’s irritability and her harsh parenting over time (four time-points).
The first part of the study 2 presents the Latent State-Trait Theory (Steyer, Ferring, & Schmitt, 1992; Steyer, Schmitt, & Eid, 1999), on which is based the study.
The empirical part of the study, preliminarily analyzes the factor structure of the Irritability Scale in both Italian sample (i.e., Naples and Rome) and at each wave: the results confirm mono-factorial structure of the scale. Then, it analyzes latent state-trait of irritability: the results indicate that each single indicator contained more trait than situation influence. Finally, it examines a conditional latent-state model: the results reveal that mother trait irritability component had a statistically significant effect in predicting later harsh parenting, above and beyond the effects of the occasion-specific situation.
The third study, titled “Mother personality and child temperament as predictors of externalizing behavior problem trajectory from age 12 to age 14”, is a longitudinal study that explorer the joint contribution of parents’ personality characteristics (irritability) and children’s temperament (inhibitory control) to the development of children’s externalizing problems.
The first part of the study 3 presents the ecological theoretical models of child development (e.g., Belsky, 1984; Bronfenbrenner, 1986), on which is based the study and examines the relationship between the child's externalizing behaviors, temperament of the child and mother's personality.
The empirical part of the study identifies, using multilevel modeling (MLM), trajectory of adolescents’ externalizing behavior problems, including mother’s irritability and inhibitory control as predictors. The results indicate that higher levels of mothers' irritability predicted higher levels of externalizing behaviors over time and the inhibitory control moderates this relation
Personality correlates of problematic tendencies and links to relational competences in adolescence
No full textDuring the transition from early to mid- adolescence some adolescents’ personality characteristics may represent risk factors for their later adjustment or promoting factors for their positive development (Caspi & Roberts, 1990; Tackett, 2006). In particular, in the last years, research has found specific association among some personality profiles and negative behavior or with positive interpersonal experiences (e.g., Asendorpf & Van Aken, 1999; De Clerq et al, 2012, Yu et al, 2014; Xie et al, 2016)
According to those studies, our contribution was aimed to examine: a) preadolescents’ personality profiles based on the Big Five personality traits model (McCrae & Costa, 1999); b) the role of personality profiles in predicting problematic behaviors (i.e. externalizing problems), and relational competence (i.e. prosocial behavior, PB, and Quality of Friendship, QoF) three years later; c) the moderating role of gender in the association between personality profiles and indicators of (mal)adjustment.
Participants were 331 boys and 284 girls Italian preadolescents (age M = 12.5) from Genzano Longitudinal Study. They were examined at age 12 (T1) and three years later (T2).
Latent Profile Analysis on personality traits at T1 suggested four different personality profiles: (a) Resilient (high on all traits); (b) Moderate (average on all traits); (c) Vulnerable (low on all traits); and (d) Undercontrolled (low on Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability, high on Extraversion). Multiple group path analysis suggested that Vulnerable profile predicted at T2 lower PB in boys and girls, and higher externalizing problems and QoF only in girls; Undercontrolled profile predicted higher externalizing problems and lower PB in boys and girls, and better QoF in boys.
Our findings suggested that adolescents’ personality profiles may affect adolescents’ proneness to positive or negative interpersonal behavior, and the quality of their relations with peer over time. Furthermore, those longitudinal associations may be partially different for boys and girls
Mothers’ Irritability and Adolescents’ antisocial behavior: the moderating role of adolescents’ inhibitory control
No full textValori familiari e comportamenti prosociali: profili di tredici differenti gruppi culturali
No full textMothers’ Irritability and Adolescents’ antisocial behavior: the moderating role of adolescents’ inhibitory control
No full textLongitudinal relations between adolescents’ prosocial behavior and self-efficacy in self-regulated learning.
No full textTraiettorie del comportamento prosociale nella transizione all’età adulta: il ruolo della autoefficacia filiale e del supporto parentale
No full textLongitudinal reciprocal relations between parental self-efficacy and children’s academic self-efficacy
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