Diverse mechanisms account for the familial aggregation of certain personality traits and externalizing psychopathology. We explored the roles of positive and negative parenting as mediators of longitudinal associations between parents' maladaptive personality traits and their children's inattention/hyperactivity problems. We collected self, informant and observational measures of parent personality, parenting and child symptoms from a community sample of 409 children (208 girls) and their primary caregiver across three waves of data collection at child ages 3, 5 and 8 years. Primary caregiver's negative temperament, mistrust and aggression were positively associated with children's symptoms of hyperactivity/inattention. While parenting was unrelated to self-reported traits, responsive parenting mediated negative associations between informant-reported maladaptive parent traits and children's hyperactivity/inattention. In addition, informant-reported trait aggression predicted boys' ADHD symptoms via hostile parenting. Findings implicate mechanisms that may underlie intergenerational transmission and continuity of inattention/hyperactivity and highlight the importance of multi-informant, multi-method approaches when studying relationships between parent traits and child outcomes.

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父母的性格和孩子的注意力不集中/多动问题通过早期护理相关

不同的机制解释了某些人格特征和外化精神病理学的家族聚集。我们探讨了积极和消极的养育方式作为父母适应不良人格特征与孩子注意力不集中/多动问题之间纵向关联的中介作用。我们从 409 名儿童（208 名女孩）的社区样本和他们的主要照料者中收集了父母个性、养育方式和儿童症状的自我、知情人和观察措施，他们跨越了 3、5 和 8 岁儿童的三波数据收集浪潮。主要照顾者的消极气质、不信任和攻击性与儿童多动/注意力不集中的症状呈正相关。虽然养育子女与自我报告的特征无关，响应式育儿介导了线人报告的父母适应不良特征与儿童多动/注意力不集中之间的负相关。此外，线人报告的特征攻击性通过敌对养育方式预测了男孩的 ADHD 症状。研究结果暗示了可能是代际传递和注意力不集中/多动持续性的基础的机制，并强调了在研究父母特征与孩子结果之间的关系时多信息提供者、多方法方法的重要性。