TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
EP  - 513
JF  - Journal of Personality
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
ID  - discovery10116446
Y1  - 2021/06//
VL  - 89
A1  - Ng-Knight, T
A1  - Schoon, I
IS  - 3
N2  - OBJECTIVE: This study extends existing research on the role of infant temperament as a moderator of the association between the quality of parent-child relationships and children's self-control during the pre-school years. In particular, we focus on the potential moderating role of a dimension of early infant temperament known as behavioral inhibition. Assumptions formulated within the diathesis-stress, the vantage-sensitivity, and the differential susceptibility models of individual differences in environmental sensitivity are tested. METHOD: Data are from the Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally representative birth cohort of 18,552 infants born in the United Kingdom during 2000/01. RESULTS: The results show that the quality of both mother-child and father-child relationships are associated with children's development of self-control in early childhood. Additionally, individual differences in infant temperament moderate the association between mother-child conflict and children's development of self-control. Specifically, high behavioral inhibition shows a vantage-sensitivity pattern for mother-child conflict. CONCLUSION: Aspects of both mothers' and fathers' relationships with their young children independently predict variations in self-control. This study also provides an initial indication that behavioral inhibition, a temperamental trait best-known for being a risk factor for anxiety, may provide small benefits in relation to young children's self-control development.
TI  - Self-control in early childhood: Individual differences in sensitivity to early parenting
KW  - behavioral inhibition
KW  -  differential susceptibility
KW  -  effortful control
KW  -  mother/father-child relationship
KW  -  self-control
KW  -  temperament
KW  -  vantage-sensitivity
SP  - 500
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12595
ER  -