The Mediating Role of Personality Traits in the Relationship between Parenting Style and Callous-Unemotional Traits

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1 Department of Psychology and Education of People with Special Needs, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

2 Department of Psychology of People with Special Needs, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology of People with Special Needs, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to examine the mediating role of Personality traits in the relationship between Parenting style and callous-unemotional traits. The research method was basic in objective and correlational and structural equation analysis in data collection. The statistical population of the research included the male students of the first secondary school studying in Qom in 2021. From this community, 451 people who were diagnosed with conduct disorder using the Children Symptom inventory (SCI-4) and were willing to cooperate were selected using convenient method. Data were collected using the parenting style inventory (PSI), Inventory callous-unemotional (ICU), and Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling were performed to analyze the data using SPSS version 21 and AMOS version 24. The results showed that the direct effect of Authoritarian parenting and permissive parenting on Callous-Unemotional traits were positive and significantly. Based on the findings of the present study, the parenting style can protect adolescents with conduct disorder from the severity of callous-unemotional traits through influencing personality traits. Based on the knowledge of the effective factors in callous-unemotional, it is possible with positive methods of parenting, the intensity of these traits is reduced.

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Journal of Applied Psychological Research

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  • Receive Date: 26 October 2022
  • Revise Date: 18 January 2023
  • Accept Date: 12 February 2023
  • First Publish Date: 26 February 2025
  • Publish Date: 02 March 2025

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