Predictive associations between Type A behavior of parents and their children: a 6-year follow-up.
This study examined over a period of 6 years whether or not Type A behavior in parents predicts Type A behavior in their children. The subjects comprised 1,116 originally randomly selected 12-, 15-, and 18-year-old adolescents and their parents. Type A behavior of the adolescents was self-rated, using two different methods: the Type A Behavior Questionnaire for the Finnish Multicenter Study (Keltikangas-Järvinen & Räikkönen, 1990) and the Hunter-Wolf A-B Rating Scale (Wolf, Sklov, Wenzl, Hunter & Berenson, 1982). Parents already had rated their Type A behavior with the Framingham Type A Scale (Haynes, Levine, Scotch, Feinleib, & Kannel, 1978) 6 years earlier. The results indicated that children are subject to the influence of both parents. However, the study found parent-child interactions to be dimension-specific and dependent on the sex of the parent. Therefore, the findings emphasize that in studying the parent-child Type A similarity, the multi-dimensionality of Type A behavior and the conjoint influence of parental behaviors should not be forgotten.
Räikkönen
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Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland.
D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014434:Type A Personality