Original scientific paper
PERCEPTION OF PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE-REJECTION AND SOME PERSONALITY VARIABLES IN YOUNG ADULTS
Gordana Kuterovac-Jagodić
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Gordana Keresteš
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Abstract
The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between
Rohner's dimensions of parental behavior, as retrospectively
perceived by young aduits, and some personality variables that
are postulated to be associated with them. 130 female and 94
male students of the University of Zagreb participated in the
study. The mean age of the sample was 21 years. Parental behavior
of both mothers and fathers was assessed by the 32 -items
version of Rohner's Adult Parental Acceptance Rejection Questionnaire
that asks aduits to reflect on the way they were treated when
they were at the age of about 7 to 12 years old. The subjects assessed
parental behavior in terms of four dimensions: perceived
warmth and affection, perceived hostility and aggression, perceived
indifference and neglect and perceived undifferentiated rejection.
The personality variables examined were aggression, extroversion
and neuroticism and self-esteem. Stepwise regression
analysis was performed for each of the personality variables with
eight dimensions of perceived parental behavior of mothers and
fathers as predictors. The obtained multiple regression coefficients
for the total sample were all significant, although quite low
(ranging from .17 to .30). The most predictive variable was the dimension
of the father's undifferentiated rejection that predicted
total aggression score, manifest and latent physical aggression,
indirect aggression, verbal latent aggression and neuroticism.
Father's warmth and affection predicted extroversion, while father's
hostility and aggression was predictive for manifest verbal
aggression. Separate analyses performed for the gender subsamples
revealed that parental behavior accounted for more of
the variance in personality variables of males than of females. In
addition, mother's behavior was shown to be predictive only in the
male subsample.
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Hrčak ID:
31609
URI
Publication date:
30.6.1997.
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