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KMID : 1037320120050020017
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Korean Journal of Infant Mental Health
2012 Volume.5 No. 2 p.17 ~ p.32
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Externalizing Problems vs Internalizing Problems of Children and Personality Traits of Parents
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Yun Young
Park Seo-Hyun
Eom So-Yong
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Abstract
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This research intends to provide preliminary data to understand parent-child relationship through investigation of internalizing as well as externalizing problems of children and personality traits of parents. For this purpose, we gathered and analyzed K-CBCL (Child Behavior Checklist) and MMPI (Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory) for sixty children, who were requested for assessment among the children between age of six and seventeen who visited the child psychology department of a university hospital in Seoul, and their mothers and fathers(sixty each). The results are as follows. First, the Hypochondriasis index and the Hypomania index of mothers showed a positive relationship with children’s externalizing problem, and no significant result was found between mothers’ character traits and children’s internalizing problems. Second, the Psychasthenia and Schizophrenia indices of fathers had a positive relationship with children’s externalizing problems, and the Psychopathic Deviate and Paranoid indices of fathers showed a positive relationship with children’s internalizing problems. These results imply that children’s internal and external problems have
relations with the psychological nature of parents, providing a basis for more specific understanding about the relationship between parents’ character traits and children’s problem behaviors. The results especially point out that fathers’ influence on children is as important as mothers’.
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KEYWORD
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externalizing problems, internalizing problems, personality traits of parents
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