Mother’s Personal Intelligence and Conversation Style Predicts the Amount of Emotion and Personality Talk with Her Child.

Personal intelligence (PI), an ability to understand personality, may influence mothers’ conversations with their children about people. Thirty-six mothers completed an ability measure of Personal Intelligence and a recorded conversation with their children. Mothers' PI correlated r = .45 with personality-related speech, as well as with their 6-9 year-olds’ speech.