Parental personality and early life ecology: a prospective cohort study from preconception to postpartum.

ABSTRACT: Personality reliably predicts life outcomes ranging from social and material resources to mental health and interpersonal capacities. However, little is known about the potential intergenerational impact of parent personality prior to offspring conception on family resources and child development across the first thousand days of life. We analysed data from the Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study (665 parents, 1030 infants; est. 1992), a two-generation study with prospective assessment of preconception background factors in parental adolescence, preconception personality traits in young adulthood (agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion, and openness), and multiple parental resources and infant characteristics in pregnancy and after the birth of thei

SUBMITTER: Spry EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9971123 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature