Warfel Evan A, Sutin Angelina, Beck Emorie D, Robins Richard W
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis.
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2025 May 15. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000561.
The present study addresses a fundamental yet largely neglected question about personality development: To what extent are changes in parent personality traits associated with changes in their child's personality traits? Numerous developmental processes suggest that parent and child personality might have transactional associations over time, contributing to their codevelopment. This codevelopment may be homotypic (e.g., associations between changes in parent and child conscientiousness) and heterotypic (e.g., associations between changes in parent conscientiousness and changes in child extraversion). In addition to investigating the extent to which parent and child personality codevelops, we also investigated the extent to which parental (mother and father) personality codevelops. We tested these ideas using bivariate growth curve models of personality trait assessments from a 17-year longitudinal study of 674 Mexican-origin families. Intercepts of parent and child trait trajectories were generally correlated, but we did not find significant correlations between the slopes, contrary to our expectation of parent-child codevelopment. We found stronger evidence for codevelopment in mom-dad dyads, with significant slope-slope correlations for extraversion, agreeableness, and openness. In almost all cases, the results generalized across child gender, child nativity, and parental age. We discuss the implications of the findings for adolescent personality development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
父母人格特质的变化在多大程度上与孩子人格特质的变化相关?众多发展过程表明,随着时间的推移,父母与孩子的人格可能存在相互影响的关联,这有助于他们的共同发展。这种共同发展可能是同型的(例如,父母和孩子尽责性变化之间的关联)和异型的(例如,父母尽责性变化与孩子外向性变化之间的关联)。除了研究父母与孩子人格共同发展的程度外,我们还研究了父母(母亲和父亲)人格共同发展的程度。我们使用来自对674个墨西哥裔家庭进行的17年纵向研究中的人格特质评估的双变量增长曲线模型来检验这些想法。父母和孩子特质轨迹的截距通常是相关的,但与我们对亲子共同发展的预期相反,我们没有发现斜率之间的显著相关性。我们发现父母二元组共同发展的证据更强,外向性、宜人性和开放性的斜率与斜率之间存在显著相关性。在几乎所有情况下,结果在孩子性别、孩子出生地和父母年龄方面都具有普遍性。我们讨论了这些发现对青少年人格发展的影响。(PsycInfo数据库记录(c)2025美国心理学会,保留所有权利)