APS

2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023

Predicting Personality in Adult Offspring By Ratings of Recalled Parental Warmth

Washington, DC · May 2023

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Elizabeth Vento
  • Elizabeth Vento
    The University of Scranton
  • Wilson McDermut
    St. John's University

Abstract

We examined retrospective ratings of parental care and personality traits among 315 adults. There were main effects of parental care on neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, arguably the most important in terms of adaptiveness in adulthood. Parental warmth predicted lower levels of detachment but only in the least negative family environment.

Personality Traits

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