The Influence of Parental Perfectionism and Parenting Styles on Child Perfectionism

Carmo, Cláudia; Oliveira, Diana; Brás, Marta; Faísca, Luis

doi:10.3390/children8090777

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“…The last aim of the study was the assessment of the eventual transgenerational transmission of perfectionism. Before discussing the relationships between parents and children characteristics, some comments could be proposed regarding the gender differences found in the mother’s and father’s perfectionism: fathers reported higher scores in MPS-SOP, MPS-OOP, and MPS-SPP than mothers, consistent with previous findings [ 47 ].…”

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Perfectionistic Children and Their Parents: Is There Room for an Intergenerational Transmission? A Study of a Clinical Sample of Italian Children and Their Parents

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Introduction: The relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and Internalizing (ID) and Externalizing Disorders (ED) in children needs to be better understood, along with the intergenerational transmission of these traits from parents to children. The present work aimed to share light on both these issues. Method: 39 children with ID, 19 with ED, and their parents were recruited*. The Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, the Big Five Inventory, the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale, and the Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children were used. The association between parent personality and perfectionism traits and children’s perfectionism dimensions was evaluated through hierarchical regression analysis. Results: ID and ED groups did not differ significantly concerning perfectionism. Fathers presented higher scores than mothers in Self-Oriented Perfectionism, Other-Oriented Perfectionism, and Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism. Parents of children with ID report higher levels of Obedience in their children, while parents of children with ED reported higher levels of Creativity and Perseverance. Significant associations were found between perfectionism in parents and their children, as well as between perfectionism and the personality of children. Conclusion: Results suggest a transdiagnostic nature of Perfectionism and support the transgenerational transmission of the personality traits investigated.

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Perfectionistic Children and Their Parents: Is There Room for an Intergenerational Transmission? A Study of a Clinical Sample of Italian Children and Their Parents

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“…Perhaps such a situation is the result of parents modeling perfectionist behavior in accordance with the social learning model theory, which assumes that children develop perfectionist traits by observing and imitating their parents’ perfectionism [ 59 ]. It should also be remembered here that the sociocultural environment is also a factor influencing the development of perfectionism [ 60 ]. In this regard, in sociocultural research we read that the cultural values of body weight, body shape and appearance are also communicated through modeling, in particular by mothers [ 61 ].…”

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Dyadic Predictors of Child Body Shame in a Polish and Italian Sample

Czepczor-Bernat

Modrzejewska

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The present study aimed at assessing the predictors (related to the functioning of a parent-child dyad) of child body shame. Therefore, in the main analysis we examined relationships among child body shame, child perfectionism, child body dissatisfaction, parent body shame, parent perfectionism, and parent body dissatisfaction. In our main hypothesis we assumed that higher levels of the abovementioned parent functioning-related variables would be associated with higher child body shame after accounting for the effects of the foregoing child functioning-related variables. The analysis finally included complete data from 420 participants, i.e., a 115 Polish and 95 Italian parent-child dyad. Participants completed: (a) child: the Objectified Body Consciousness Scale for Youth, the Child-Adolescent Perfectionism Scale, the Children’s Body Image Scale/the Figure Rating Scale; (b) parent: the Objectified Body Consciousness Scale, the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, and the Contour Drawing Rating Scale. The results of a correlational analysis show that in both the Polish and Italian samples, the higher the level of child body shame, the higher the level of the following variables: child perfectionism, child body dissatisfaction, parent perfectionism, and parent body dissatisfaction. Interestingly, the only insignificant relationship in both samples is the association between body shame in both members of the child-parent dyad. Moreover, all steps of the regressions were significant in both Polish and Italian samples. It turned out that only in the Italian sample were all predictors significantly associated with a child’s body shame (in the Polish sample there was no significant association between child’s body shame and parent’s perfectionism). To sum up, the above studies show the importance of considering the functioning of the parent-child dyad in understanding child body shame. These findings suggest that parents' attitudes toward their bodies and their beliefs about an ideal self should be taken into account when planning interventions to improve children’s and adolescents’ attitudes toward their bodies. This is so because it is possible for children to internalize their parents’ beliefs about how to look and how critical one should be of themselves, which can result in strong body shame when they are not perfect enough against the internalized ideal. Therefore, it is also necessary to make parents aware that children’s attitude toward their body is often a reflection of parents’ attitude toward the body.

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“…Another direction for further research is elaborating the mediation effect on personality traits such as perfectionism, since perfectionism has been found to predict parenting practices and has important theoretical meaning in the context of parenting ( Azizi & Besharat, 2011 ; Carmo et al, 2021 ; Flett, Hewitt & Singer, 1995 ; Lee, Schoppe-Sullivan & Dush, 2012 ). Lastly, while this is a highly plausible model, there are alternate explanations for the relationship between the variables, including passive and evocative gene-environment correlations ( Knafo & Jaffee, 2013 ) influencing the association between parents’ temperament, parents’ character and parenting practices and children’s behavioral problems.…”

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Mediating roles of character traits and parenting in the relationship between maternal effortful control and children’s conduct problems

Yeshua

Zohar

Berger

2023

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Background Parenting practices are crucial to children’s development and are important predictors of children’s conduct problems. The aim of the current study was to test the mediating role of mothers’ character traits on the relationship between their temperamental self-regulation and their parenting practices, and on their children’s conduct problems. Method A representative sample of 387 Israeli mothers of kindergarten children was recruited online. They completed questionnaires about their own effortful control (adult temperament questionnaire; ATQ), character traits (temperament and character inventory-revised (TCI-R), big five inventory (BFI)), and parenting practices (coping with children’s negative emotions scale; CCNES), as well as conduct problems of their children (strengths and difficulties questionnaire; SDQ). Structural equation models were fitted, testing for direct and indirect connections, once with character traits drawn from the TCI and once with BFI traits. Results In both analyses, the first model presented a significant direct effect between mothers’ effortful control and children’s conduct problems. When including mother’s parenting and character (based on the TCI or on the BFI) in the model, the direct path became insignificant and significant mediation effects were found; specifically, the indirect path through the parenting practices, as well as the mediated mediation path through the parenting practices and character. Moreover, mediation effects were found between mothers’ effortful control and parenting practices through some character traits. The selected models showed a good fit (e.g., NFI = 0.985; CFI = 0.997; RMSEA = 0.038). Discussion Our findings emphasize the importance of the mother’s mature personality characteristics, the mother’s actual parental practices, and the crucial value of this path for predicting child behavior outcomes.

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The Influence of Parental Perfectionism and Parenting Styles on Child Perfectionism

Cited by 17 publications

References 36 publications

Perfectionistic Children and Their Parents: Is There Room for an Intergenerational Transmission? A Study of a Clinical Sample of Italian Children and Their Parents

Perfectionistic Children and Their Parents: Is There Room for an Intergenerational Transmission? A Study of a Clinical Sample of Italian Children and Their Parents

Dyadic Predictors of Child Body Shame in a Polish and Italian Sample

Mediating roles of character traits and parenting in the relationship between maternal effortful control and children’s conduct problems

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