Predicting adolescents' parent–child relationship quality from parental personality, marital conflict and adolescents' personality
- Author(s)
- Harald Werneck, Maximilian Oscar Eder, Takuya Yanagida, Brigitte Rollett
- Abstract
Longitudinal influences on the relationships between parents and their adolescent children in 175 Austrian families were analysed with data from three measurement points over a time span of 18 years. We investigated the influences of parental personality, marital conflict and adolescents' personality on the father-child and mother-child relationships separately. Inconsistent with previous theories and empirical findings, we found almost no associations between parental personality and parent-child relationships. Marital conflict was associated with only the father-child relationship. Children's personality showed the most consistent associations with the parent-child relationship. Our data support the theory of dynamic interactionism, which postulates an interdependency of personality factors and social relationships.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
- Journal
- European Journal of Developmental Psychology
- Volume
- 11
- Pages
- 159-176
- No. of pages
- 18
- ISSN
- 1740-5629
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2013.876914
- Publication date
- 03-2014
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501005 Developmental psychology, 501004 Differential psychology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/predicting-adolescents-parentchild-relationship-quality-from-parental-personality-marital-conflict-and-adolescents-personality(d6b8c1ee-b050-456f-842d-21ad9d6e5428).html