Effects of parenting styles on adult personality traits, depressive trait, and brain structure

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This study explored the complex triangular relationships between parenting styles, personality traits, and depressive trait in Chinese Han adults (N = 490; Mean age=24.25; 51.0% women), and examined the relationship between parenting styles and brain structure. The data indicated that depressive trait in adulthood were negatively correlated with a favorable parenting style (emotional warmth) and positively correlated with undesirable parenting styles (punishment, rejection, and overprotection/over-intervention). Additionally, depressive trait in adulthood were positively related to neuroticism and psychoticism, and negatively related to extraversion. Using a multiple parallel mediation analysis, we found that neuroticism could be worsened by undesirable parenting styles and ameliorated by favorable parenting styles, and it further mediated the relationship between parenting styles and depressive trait across all models. Psychoticism played a similar role in two models: 1) parental punishment and depressive trait and 2) parental rejection and depressive trait. Extraversion played a mediating role between the father's overprotection and depressive trait. Subgroup analysis showed that different mediating pathways existed between different sexes. In terms of brain structure, we found that gray matter volume of the right inferior frontal gyrus was negatively related to overprotection by the father and positively related to psychoticism. Our findings highlight the importance of parenting style on personality traits, depressive trait, and brain structure over the long term.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:93

Enthalten in:

Asian journal of psychiatry - 93(2024) vom: 30. März, Seite 103939

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jiang, Haihua [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiao [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yuyanan [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Hao Yang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Dai [VerfasserIn]
Yue, Weihua [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Depressive trait
Journal Article
Mediation
Parenting styles
Personality traits
Right inferior frontal gyrus

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Date Completed 08.03.2024

Date Revised 08.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ajp.2024.103939

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368402878