The impact of maternal personality traits on behavioral problems in preschool-aged children: a population-based panel st
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The impact of maternal personality traits on behavioral problems in preschool-aged children: a population-based panel study in South Korea Hyunseuk Kim 1 & Jungwon Choi 1 & Yunhye Oh 1 Received: 29 April 2020 / Accepted: 23 September 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The impact of maternal personality traits on offspring behavioral problems has not been well established. In our study, the association between maternal personality traits and behavioral problems in preschool-aged children was investigated. A total of 192 preschoolers with their mothers, who were part of a population-based panel study in South Korea, were included in the present study. Maternal personality traits were assessed by the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) when the children were 1 year old. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) 1.5–5 was used to identify behavioral problems in the children at 4 and 5 years of age. Maternal personality (borderline, somatization) positively correlated with behavioral problems (externalizing, internalizing, and dysregulation) in children. Maternal paranoid personality trait correlated with children’s internalizing and dysregulation behavioral problems. Multiple linear regressions showed that maternal borderline trait significantly predicted children’s externalizing (B = 0.302, P = 0.001), internalizing (B = 0.211, P = 0.020), and dysregulation problems (B = 0.327, P < 0.001). Similarly, maternal somatization trait predicted children’s internalizing problems (B = 0.291, P < 0.001). Maternal borderline and somatization traits showed association with children’s behavioral problems. Psychological intervention and support for mothers with these personality traits may be helpful in raising children with behavioral problems. Keywords Maternal personality . Child behavioral problems
Abbreviations PAI Personality Assessment Inventory CBCL Child Behavior Checklist K-CBCL Korean Child Behavior Checklist PSKC Panel Study on Korean Children IRB Institutional Review Board BPD Borderline personality disorder ITSEA Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment EPQ-R Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised MSCA McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities
* Yunhye Oh [email protected] 1
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Center for Mental Health, Seoul, South Korea
Introduction The impact of perinatal maternal mental disorder on offspring development and psychological problems has been well established (Stein et al. 2014). Several studies have reported that perinatal maternal depression is associated with child emotional and behavioral problems (Goodman et al. 2011; Korhonen et al. 2012; Velders et al. 2011). Some longitudinal studies have shown associations between perinatal depression and child internalizing problems, social difficulties, and childhood onset depression (Coyne and Thompson 2011; Pawlby et al. 2009; Verbeek et al. 2012). Child externalizing problems, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, have also been associat
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