Child Temperament as a Predictor of Parents' Potential for Emotional Abuse
Citation
Pekdoğan, S., & Kanak, M. (2022). Child Temperament as a Predictor of Parents' Potential for Emotional Abuse. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 210(5), 330-334.Abstract
Children who are constantly criticized and humiliated by their parents
and whose needs for affection and attention are not sufficiently addressed are defined
as people with personality traits, low self-confidence, and antisocial behaviors. These
personality traits have a significant influence on the shaping of the child's temperament.
Therefore, emotional abuse negatively affects both the personality and success
of the child. In line with this, child temperament was analyzed as a predictor of the
emotional abuse potential of parents who have children between the ages of 4 and
6. The experimental group of the study consisted of 237 parents. Data were collected
using The Scale for Emotional Abuse Potential of Parents with Children Aged 3 to 6
and Temperament AssessmentBattery forChildren–Revised: Parent Form. In the data
analysis, the intervariable relationship was determined by the Pearson correlation coefficient,
and the predictors of emotional abuse potentials were determined by multiple
regression analysis. As a result of the analysis, a significant negative correlation
was found between shyness and parents' emotionally abusive behaviors, a significant
positive correlation between those behaviors and surgency, and negative affectivity. A
positive correlation was found between persistence and the parents' emotional abuse
preventive behaviors. In terms of predictive variables, it was found that the causality
subdimension of the emotional abuse potentials of parentswas significantly predicted
by the negative affectivity subdimension of temperament, and emotional abuse
preventive potentials of parents were significantly predicted by the persistence
subdimension of temperament.