Child-rearing patterns and dimensions of personality
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John Clayer
South Australian Health Commission
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Michael W. Ross
Flinders University Medical School
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Rita Campbell
South Australian Health Commission
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- Keywords:
- social behavior, social psychology, child-rearing, patterns, dimensions, personality, EPQ, EMBU Inventory, parent
- Abstract
- The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and EMBU Inventory for measurement of child-rearing practices were administered to 85 university students, 72 medical and surgical patients, and 66 employees of a state department in order to assess the relationships between personality dimensions and child-rearing. Results indicate that parents of extraverts tend to be performance-oriented and stimulating, parents of high psychoticism scorers tend to be unstimulating and unaffectionate, and that parents of high neuroticism scorers tend to be guilt-engendering, overprotective and shaming. There is no relationship between the Lie scale and parental rearing patterns. These findings suggest that child-rearing patterns have an influence on personality, although inheritance cannot be ruled out.
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- Published
- 1984-08-01
- Issue
- Volume 12, 1984, Issue 2
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