Journal article
Parental personality and early life ecology: a prospective cohort study from preconception to postpartum
EA Spry, CA Olsson, SR Aarsman, H Mohamad Husin, JA Macdonald, SG Dashti, M Moreno-Betancur, P Letcher, EJ Biden, KC Thomson, H McAnally, CJ Greenwood, M Middleton, DM Hutchinson, JB Carlin, GC Patton
Scientific Reports | NATURE PORTFOLIO | Published : 2023
Abstract
Personality reliably predicts life outcomes ranging from social and material resources to mental health and interpersonal capacities. However, little is known about the potential intergenerational impact of parent personality prior to offspring conception on family resources and child development across the first thousand days of life. We analysed data from the Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study (665 parents, 1030 infants; est. 1992), a two-generation study with prospective assessment of preconception background factors in parental adolescence, preconception personality traits in young adulthood (agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion, and openness),..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the families who have participated in the Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study for their invaluable contributions, as well as all collaborators and the study team involved in the data collection and management. Data collection for this work was supported by NHMRC [APP1063091; APP1008273; APP1157378], Australian Rotary Health, Colonial Foundation, Perpetual Trustees, Financial Markets Foundation for Children (Australia), Royal Children's Hospital Foundation, and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. EAS is supported by an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from Deakin University, Australia. EAS was further supported in the preparation of this paper by the ARC (DP180102447), GCP by NHMRC (APP1117873), CAO by NHMRC (APP1175086), MMB by ARC (DE190101326), KCT by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MFE158141), EJB by a Deakin University Postgraduate Research Scholarship, DH by NHMRC (APP1197488). Research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Program.