Povezanost osobina ličnosti i nekih karakteristika obiteljskoga funkcioniranja sa psihičkim simptomima majki i očeva
The Relation between Personality Traits, Family Functioning and Mothers' and Fathers' Psychological Symptoms

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study was to identify the predictors of mothers' and fathers' psychological adjustment. Ninety married couples with at least one child between 3 and 13 years of age participated in the study. The contribution of family functioning, marital quality, parental stress and child behavior problems on psychological symptoms of mothers and fathers was examined after controlling the effects of personality traits. Separate analyses of relations between different aspects of psychological symptoms and parental stress sources and child behavior problems were performed for mothers and fathers. Personality traits explained the psychological distress of mothers: mothers who were more neurotic had more psychological symptoms. Family functioning and marital quality contributed to the explanation of psychological symptoms too, as well as parental stress and child behavior problems, which were the only significant predictor. Neuroticism predicted psychological symptoms in fathers. Both family functioning and marital quality were also significant predictors. Fathers who estimated lower marital quality had more psychological symptoms. Parental variables did not contribute significantly to the explanation of psychological symptoms of fathers.

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