Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (대한소아청소년정신의학회)
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The Relationship between Parent's and Offspring's Personality and Offspring's Psychological Adaptation

부모의 성격 및 자녀의 성격과 자녀의 심리적 적응 간의 관계

  • Lee, Suk-Hi (Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Kim, Tae-Ho (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Konkuk University) ;
  • Jun, Young-Soon (Department of Psychology, Konkuk University Chungju Hospital)
  • 이숙희 (충북대학교 심리학과) ;
  • 김태호 (건국대학교 의학전문대학원 정신건강의학교실) ;
  • 전영순 (건국대학교 충주병원 임상심리실)
  • Received : 2015.12.07
  • Accepted : 2016.02.05
  • Published : 2016.03.31
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Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between personality of parent and offspring, and offspring's psychological adaptation. Methods: We examined temperament and character of 65 parents and their offspring (measured using the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory and Temperament and Character Inventory) and offspring's internalizing (anxiety, depression) and externalizing (delinquency, hyperactivity) problems. Results: The internalizing problems of offspring were positively associated with harm avoidance (HA) of offspring and parent, and negatively associated with self-directedness (SD) of offspring and parent. The externalizing problems of offspring were positively associated with novelty seeking of offspring, and were predicted by SD of parent. The interaction between parent's HA and offspring's HA predicted higher levels of anxiety of offspring. Conclusion: The association between the offspring's personality and internalizing and externalizing problems can depend on the personality of the parent.

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