Childhood temperament and mother's child-rearing attitudes: stability and interaction in a three-year follow-up study
✍ Scribed by Saara Katainen; Katri Raïkkönen; Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 257 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0890-2070
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✦ Synopsis
Stability and interactions between children's behavioural styles (i.e. the temperament dimensions sociability, negative emotionality, and activity) and maternal child-rearing attitudes were studied in a random sample of 507 three-year-old children over a threeyear interval. Structural equation modelling indicated low to moderate stability for children's temperament dimensions and mothers' child-rearing attitudes. In addition, gender-specific interactions were found. In boys, negative emotionality and low sociability potentiated a strict disciplinary style of the mother, whereas activity was more likely to be stimulated by a mother's low tolerance towards the child. By contrast, in girls a mother's strict disciplinary style predicted negative emotionality and low sociability, whereas the girl's activity predicted a strict disciplinary style of the mother. These findings underline the close interaction between temperament and mothering during childhood.