Memories of parental rearing practices and personality features

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Abstract
Relationships between own memories of parental rearing practices and adult personality features were examined. Healthy volunteers (200), 86 males and 114 females, completed the Own Memories of Child-Rearing Experiences (EMBU), the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and the Lazare-Klerman-Armor Trait Scale (LKAS). Relations between 2 sets of variables were examined by means of Pearson product moment correlation coefficient, and Bonferroni inequalities were applied for each family of hypotheses. For the male sample, all correlations were not significant. For females, there were several significant correlations. The most consistent finding was that the experience of negative parental rearing factors was associated with pathological features in the personality. Of the significant correlations .apprx. 1/2 were found between female hysterical scores and EMBU father. The general assumption that females with hysterical traits have complicated relations to their fathers, which may indicate fixation in the Oedipal stage, was supported.