Eysenck's Personality Traits

Abstract The relationship between parents and their children is somewhat hard to investigate. This paper will shed light on how certain personality traits held by parents can affect their children positively or negatively. Mainly, it will discuss the Authoritarian and the Eysenck Personalities and how parents who possess these types of personality can affect their children latently. The method used will be qualitative research. This research paper will depend on journals and studies published by psychology veterans. These cited researches will help gather a main idea or a backbone for the paper which will later help us understand the full view of the issue. Even though a lot argue that personality traits of parents do not affect their children,

For instance, if a child has a mother who is always anxious and stressed, this child is more likely to have the same kind of response in the case he experiences a certain stimulus that results in punishment. Eysenck theory of personality is more organized and more complex. He compartmentalized the personality traits in order to achieve a conclusion about the probability of actions each personality can commit. Connolly and O’Moore (2001), “Interestingly, Eysenck’s theory of criminality (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1964) and theory of antisocial behavior (Eysenck, 1977), suggests that such conduct could be found more frequently in people with high scores on extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism” (p.561). This does not mean that anyone with an extravert personality can become a bully. People who usually pursue hunt for rewards and payments without fearing any consequences even if they are fatal for themselves and other people. Even though punishment is one of the ways children learn that for every mistake there will be a penalty, in many cases rebellious children find it hard to cope with rules and morals implied on them by their parents. According Savi and Akbov, empirical evidence proved that there is a relationship between parental personality and parenting behavior which indirectly affects the psychology of children. They also added that supportive and nurturing parenting is positively correlated to

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