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Personality and Job Stress: A Comparison of Direct Effects on Parenting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

Angel Blanch  and
Anton Aluja
Angel Blanch*
Affiliation:
Universitat de Lleida (Spain)
Anton Aluja
Affiliation:
Universitat de Lleida (Spain)
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Angel Blanch. Departamento de Pedagogía y Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación. Universitat de Lleida. Avda de l'Estudi General, 4. 25001 Lleida (Spain). Phone: +34-973706529. E-mail: ablanch@pip.udl.cat
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Abstract

The impact of personality and job characteristics on parental rearing styles was compared in 353 employees. Hypotheses concerning the relationships between personality and job variables were formulated in accordance with findings in past research and the Belsky's model (1984). Structural equation nested models showed that Aggression-hostility, Sociability and job Demand were predictive of Rejection and Emotional Warmth parenting styles, providing support for some of the hypothesized relationships. The findings suggest a well-balanced association of personality variables with both parenting styles: Aggression-Hostility was positively related to Rejection and negatively to Emotional Warmth, whereas Sociability was positively related to Emotional Warmth and negatively related to Rejection. Personality dimensions explained a higher amount of variance in observed parenting styles. However, a model that considered both, personality and job dimensions as antecedent variables of parenting was the best representation of observed data, as both systems play a role in the prediction of parenting behavior.

El impacto de la personalidad y las características del trabajo sobre los estilos educativos paternos se comparó en 353 trabajadores. Se formularon hipótesis sobre las relaciones entre variables de personalidad y laborales de acuerdo con los resultados de investigaciones anteriores y el modelo de Belsky (1984). La evaluación de una serie de modelos de ecuaciones estructurales anidados, mostró que la Agresión – hostilidad, la Sociabilidad, y las demandas de trabajo eran predictivas de estilos educativos de Rechazo y Calidez Emocional, apoyando algunas de las relaciones hipotetizadas. Los resultados sugieren una asociación equilibrada de las variables de personalidad con ambos tipos de estilos educativos: Agresión – hostilidad se asoció positivamente con Rechazo y negativamente con Calidez Emocional, mientras que Sociabilidad se asoció positivamente con Calidez Emocional y negativamente con Rechazo. Las dimensiones de personalidad explicaron una mayor proporción de varianza en los estilos educativos. En cualquier caso, un modelo incluyendo tanto variables de personalidad como laborales como antecedentes de los estilos educativos, mostró la mejor representación de los datos observados, ya que ambos sistemas parecen jugar un papel importante en la predicción de conductas de educación parental.

Keywords

personalityjob stressparentingpersonalidadestrés laboralestilos educativos
Type
Research Article
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , November 2011 , pp. 667 - 674
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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