Longitudinal Associations Between Parenting & Child Big Five Personality Traits: Preponderance of null relations between these parenting measures & child personality, esp. between changes in parenting & changes in child personality

Longitudinal Associations Between Parenting and Child Big Five Personality Traits. Mona Ayoub et al. Collabra: Psychology (2021) 7 (1): 29766. Nov 18 2021. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.29766

PhD Thesis: Longitudinal Relations Betwwen Parenting and Child Big Five Personality Traits. Mona Ayou. PhD Psychology Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019. https://www.bipartisanalliance.com/2019/12/the-associations-between-parenting-and.html

Abstract: The goal of this research was to explore the relationships between four parenting dimensions (academic involvement, structure, cultural stimulation, and goals) and child personality development. Many theories, such as social learning, attachment theory, and the psychological resources principle assume that parenting practices influence child personality development. Most of past research on the associations between parenting and child Big Five traits specifically has used cross-sectional data. The few longitudinal studies that examined these associations found small relations between parenting and child personality. We extended this research by examining the long-term relations between four underexplored parenting dimensions and child Big Five personality traits using bivariate latent growth models in a large longitudinal dataset (N = 3,880). Results from growth models revealed a preponderance of null relations between these parenting measures and child personality, especially between changes in parenting and changes in child personality. In general, the observed associations between parenting and child Big Five personality were comparable in magnitude to the association between factors such as SES and birth order, and child personality—that is, small. The small associations between environmental factors and personality suggest that personality development in childhood and adolescence may be driven by multiple factors, each of which makes a small contribution.

Keywords: Parenting, Personality, Big Five, Personality Development