Mothers' and Fathers' Personality, Infants' Anger Proneness, and Responsive Parenting.

ABSTRACT: Parenting in infancy is immensely important for children's development and therefore, contributors to varying quality of early parenting have been extensively studied. Among those, parents' personality and its links with parenting have attracted intense interest, but factors that may affect those associations, including characteristics of the child, particularly in father-infant relationships, remain poorly understood (Taraban & Shaw, 2018). We present a study of 200 families, including infants, mothers, and fathers (Children and Parents Study). Parents reported their Big Five traits and distress/psychopathology. We observed their parenting (a composite of responsiveness, positive affect, and reversed negative affect, defined as positive responsiveness) toward the infant in home interactio

SUBMITTER: Kochanska G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12695959 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature