Role of Parental bonding in development of Personality traits: A cross-sectional study among medical undergraduates of Jammu”
Keywords:
Personality traits, Parental Bonding InstrumentAbstract
Background: Many contemporary personality psychologists believe that disproportionate involvement from parents can be detrimental for their child’s personality. A child with a secure parental bonding learns to tackle problems,regulate emotions and builds optimistic behaviour.
Aim & Objective: This study aimed to assess the different personality traits among medical undergraduates, to study the association of various socio-demographic and other family related variables with the personality traits, and to assess the correlation between parental bonding and personality
Settings and Design: This cross-sectional study was conducted among the Phase 1&2 undergraduate medical students of GMC Jammu.
Methods and Material: The personality traits were measured by the Big five inventory and parental bonding was measured by Parental bonding instrument.
Statistical analysis used: Data collected was analyzed using SPSS version 27.0. Tests of significance used were student t-test, ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation test and a p value of < 0.05 was taken as statistically significant.
Results: A total of 260 medical undergraduates constituted the study population. Mean age was 19.51±1.46 years. Mean (± SD) scores for openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism were (37.97±5.44),(31.85±4.49),(27.58± 4.21),(31.41±3.60) & (26.49±3.36) respectively. Among all the variables studied, father’s education was significantly associated with all the personality traits.There is a direct and significant co-relation between conscientiousness and extraversion traits of personality with mother’s care, mother’s over protection and father’s care.
Conclusions: Emphasis must be paid to improve the parental bonding with their children so as to promote their overall development, confidence, self-esteem and socialization.
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