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The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strength.

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Manian, N; Papadakis, AA; Strauman, TJ; Essex, MJ
Published in: Journal of personality
December 2006

Regulatory focus theory (RFT; Higgins, 1997) predicts that individual differences in the strength of promotion (ideal) and prevention (ought) orientations emerge from patterns of parent/child interactions that emphasize making good things happen versus keeping bad things from happening. This article examines the development of individual differences in the strength of children's promotion and prevention goals and presents selected findings from three studies exploring the origins of regulatory focus. We found a three-factor structure for parenting behaviors that differentiated between the presence/absence of positive outcomes versus the presence/absence of negative outcomes in two different data sets and validated that factor structure by examining its associations with maternal temperament. In turn, the parenting factors predicted individual differences in children's orientations to ideal and ought guides, and those associations were moderated by individual differences in child temperament.

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Journal of personality

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EISSN

1467-6494

ISSN

0022-3506

Publication Date

December 2006

Volume

74

Issue

6

Start / End Page

1619 / 1645

Related Subject Headings

  • Temperament
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Control, Informal
  • Self Efficacy
  • Research Design
  • Personality Development
  • Personality
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Models, Psychological
 

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Manian, N., Papadakis, A. A., Strauman, T. J., & Essex, M. J. (2006). The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strength. Journal of Personality, 74(6), 1619–1645. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2006.00422.x
Manian, Nanmathi, Alison A. Papadakis, Timothy J. Strauman, and Marilyn J. Essex. “The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strength.Journal of Personality 74, no. 6 (December 2006): 1619–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2006.00422.x.
Manian N, Papadakis AA, Strauman TJ, Essex MJ. The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strength. Journal of personality. 2006 Dec;74(6):1619–45.
Manian, Nanmathi, et al. “The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strength.Journal of Personality, vol. 74, no. 6, Dec. 2006, pp. 1619–45. Epmc, doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2006.00422.x.
Manian N, Papadakis AA, Strauman TJ, Essex MJ. The development of children's ideal and ought self-guides: parenting, temperament, and individual differences in guide strength. Journal of personality. 2006 Dec;74(6):1619–1645.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of personality

DOI

EISSN

1467-6494

ISSN

0022-3506

Publication Date

December 2006

Volume

74

Issue

6

Start / End Page

1619 / 1645

Related Subject Headings

  • Temperament
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Control, Informal
  • Self Efficacy
  • Research Design
  • Personality Development
  • Personality
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Models, Psychological