Past research has demonstrated associations between parental personality traits and children's behaviour. However, fathers have been largely excluded from this research, and mothers often rate both their own personality and their child's behaviour, contributing to shared method variance. This study contributes to the literature by examining associations between parental biologically based affective personality traits, analysed separately for mothers and fathers, and seven- and eight-year-old children's self-reported internalising and externalising behaviours. Data were analysed for 272 mother-child dyads and 208 father-child dyads. A series of multiple linear regressions was utilised to test associations between mothers’ and fathers’ traits of ANGER, SADNESS, FEAR, PLAY, SEEKING and CARE, assessed using the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS), and children's self-reported internalising and externalising behaviours, assessed using the Berkeley Puppet Interview. Results revealed that higher ANPS ANGER scores amongst mothers were associated with more externalising behaviours in boys. Mothers with higher scores on SEEKING had sons with lower scores on externalising behaviours, while mothers with higher PLAY scores had sons with lower scores on internalising behaviours. Fathers with higher ANPS SADNESS scores had children with greater internalising behaviours, while fathers with greater FEAR traits had children with lower internalising behaviours. Indirect associations through harsh or positive parenting were not significant. Findings demonstrated that ANPS traits of ANGER, PLAY and SEEKING for mothers and FEAR and SADNESS for fathers are associated with children's self-reported externalising and internalising behaviours. This study adds to the literature on biologically based parental affective personality and children's internalising and externalising behaviours.

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父母情感人格与儿童自我报告的内化和外化行为

过去的研究表明，父母的人格特质与孩子的行为之间存在关联。然而，父亲在很大程度上被排除在这项研究之外，母亲经常对自己的个性和孩子的行为进行评分，这导致了共享方法的差异。本研究通过检查父母基于生物学的情感人格特征之间的关联来为文献做出贡献，分别针对母亲和父亲进行分析，以及 7 岁和 8 岁儿童自我报告的内化和外化行为。对 272 对母子和 208 对父子的数据进行了分析。一系列多元线性回归被用来测试母亲和父亲的愤怒、悲伤、恐惧、玩耍、寻求和关心的特征之间的关联，使用情感神经科学人格量表 (ANPS) 进行评估，儿童自我报告的内化和外化行为使用伯克利木偶访谈进行评估。结果显示，母亲的 ANPS ANGER 得分越高，男孩的外化行为就越多。SEEKING得分较高的母亲的儿子外化行为得分较低，而PLAY得分较高的母亲的儿子内化行为得分较低。ANPS SADNESS 得分较高的父亲的孩子内化行为较多，而 FEAR 特征较高的父亲的孩子内化行为较低。通过严厉或积极的养育方式产生的间接关联并不显着。研究结果表明，ANGER 的 ANPS 特征，母亲的玩耍和寻求以及父亲的恐惧和悲伤与孩子自我报告的外化和内化行为有关。这项研究增加了有关基于生物学的父母情感人格和儿童内化和外化行为的文献。