A tri-directional examination of adolescent personality, perceived parenting, and context in influencing adolescent behavioral outcomes
A tri-directional examination of adolescent personality, perceived parenting, and context in influencing adolescent behavioral outcomes
Introduction: adolescent personality is consistently linked to behavioral strengths and difficulties. However, most of this work is limited in that it does not consider personality beyond the Big Five or economic or parental adversity contexts. The Tri-Directional Framework of Parent and Offspring Traits and Outcomes highlights the collective influence of personality, parenting, and context on offspring behavioral outcomes.
Methods: parent and adolescent cross-sectional data were collected from 2019-2021 as part of the Parents and Children Together project in the United Kingdom. Adolescents (N = 310, 48.7% female) self-reported on Dark Triad traits, parenting, and behavior. Parents (N = 288, 46.9% mothers) self-reported on socioeconomic status and adverse childhood experiences. In two path analysis models, we examined: (1) adolescent Dark Triad, context, and their interactions as predictors of perceived maternal and paternal warmth, hostility, and control; and (2) adolescent Dark Triad, perceived parenting, context, and personality-parenting interactions as predictors of adolescent behavioral strengths and difficulties.
Results: adolescent narcissistic traits were the strongest predictors of perceived maternal parenting, whereas adolescent psychopathy and Machiavellianism were the strongest predictors of perceived paternal parenting. Adolescent personality interacted with contextual factors in predicting parenting, but not with perceived parenting in predicting behavior.
Conclusion: adolescent Dark Triad traits, especially narcissism, and contextual factors are important for the parent-offspring relationship and developmental outcomes. We recommend that research move beyond assessing direct trait-outcome associations to examining how these associations operate in different environments.
personality, adolescence, parenting, adolescent behavior, socioeconomic status
Truhan, Tayler E.
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Armour, Cherie
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Papageorgiou, Kostas A.
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28 July 2023
Truhan, Tayler E.
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Armour, Cherie
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Papageorgiou, Kostas A.
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Truhan, Tayler E., Sedikides, Constantine, Armour, Cherie and Papageorgiou, Kostas A.
(2023)
A tri-directional examination of adolescent personality, perceived parenting, and context in influencing adolescent behavioral outcomes.
Journal of Adolescence.
Abstract
Introduction: adolescent personality is consistently linked to behavioral strengths and difficulties. However, most of this work is limited in that it does not consider personality beyond the Big Five or economic or parental adversity contexts. The Tri-Directional Framework of Parent and Offspring Traits and Outcomes highlights the collective influence of personality, parenting, and context on offspring behavioral outcomes.
Methods: parent and adolescent cross-sectional data were collected from 2019-2021 as part of the Parents and Children Together project in the United Kingdom. Adolescents (N = 310, 48.7% female) self-reported on Dark Triad traits, parenting, and behavior. Parents (N = 288, 46.9% mothers) self-reported on socioeconomic status and adverse childhood experiences. In two path analysis models, we examined: (1) adolescent Dark Triad, context, and their interactions as predictors of perceived maternal and paternal warmth, hostility, and control; and (2) adolescent Dark Triad, perceived parenting, context, and personality-parenting interactions as predictors of adolescent behavioral strengths and difficulties.
Results: adolescent narcissistic traits were the strongest predictors of perceived maternal parenting, whereas adolescent psychopathy and Machiavellianism were the strongest predictors of perceived paternal parenting. Adolescent personality interacted with contextual factors in predicting parenting, but not with perceived parenting in predicting behavior.
Conclusion: adolescent Dark Triad traits, especially narcissism, and contextual factors are important for the parent-offspring relationship and developmental outcomes. We recommend that research move beyond assessing direct trait-outcome associations to examining how these associations operate in different environments.
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 July 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 28 July 2023
Published date: 28 July 2023
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personality, adolescence, parenting, adolescent behavior, socioeconomic status
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Tayler E. Truhan
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Cherie Armour
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Kostas A. Papageorgiou
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