RT journal article
T1 The Moderating Role of Surgency, Behavioral Inhibition, Negative Emotionality and Effortful Control in the Relationship between Parenting Style and Children’s Reactive and Proactive Aggression
A1 del Puerto-Golzarri, Nora
A1 Azurmendi, Aitziber
A1 Carreras de Alba, María Rosario
A1 Muñoz Sánchez, José Manuel
A1 Braza Lloret, Paloma
A1 Vegas, O.
A1 Pascual-Sagastizábal, Eider
A2 Psicología
K1 aggressive behavior
K1 temperament
K1 parenting style
K1 children
K1 reactive aggression
K1 proactive aggression
K1 surgency
K1 behavioral inhibition
K1 negative emotionality
K1 effortful control
AB The principal aim of this study is to explore the moderating role of temperament in therelationship between parenting style and the reactive and proactive aggressive behavior of 8-year-oldchildren. The participants are 279 children (154 boys and 125 girls). To measure reactive and proactiveaggression, children completed the reactive and proactive questionnaire (RPQ). Child temperamentand parenting styles were evaluated by both parents using the temperament in middle childhoodquestionnaire (TMCQ) and the parenting styles and dimensions questionnaire (PSDQ). The resultsrevealed that boys with high surgency levels and authoritarian fathers displayed more reactiveaggression, whereas behaviorally inhibited boys with mothers who scored low for authoritarianparenting displayed less reactive aggression. Finally, girls with high levels of effortful control andmothers who scored low for authoritative parenting displayed more proactive aggression. The resultshighlight the value of studying the moderating role of temperament in the relationship betweenchildren’s aggressive behavior and both mothers’ and fathers’ parenting styles, and underscores theimportance of doing so separately for boys and girls.
PB MDPI
SN 2227-9067
YR 2022
FD 2022-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26503
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26503
LA eng
NO This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [PSI2016-75462-P], the UPV/EHU GIU18/103 Project Grants and the Basque Country Government, grant number [PRE_2018_1_0111].
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 07-nov-2026