| INTRODUCTIONDifferences in personality influence how people function in multiple social roles, including that of the parent. Ecological theories have long proposed that mothers' and fathers' personality traits are among the key determinants of their parenting (Belsky, 1984;Taraban & Shaw, 2018), and for several decades, the study of personality-parenting associations
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