The Relation between Parent's Personality Characteristics and their Acceptance - Rejection toward their Elementary School Children in Shahreza

The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between parent's personality characteristics and their acceptance – rejection.70 elementary school students (40 girls and 3 boys) and their parents evaluated by (NEO-FFI), and Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PRAQ).Findings showed that among female students, 2 factors of mothers’ personality (openness to experience and conscientiousness) were correlated to maternal acceptance and rejection and 3 factors of fathers’ personality (neuroticism, conscientiousness, and extraversion) were correlated to paternal acceptance-rejection. Results also revealed that among male students, one factor of mothers’ personality (extraversion) was correlated to maternal acceptance–rejection and four factors of fathers’ personality (openness to experience, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and agreeableness) were correlated to paternal acceptance-rejection. In general, the results of this study revealed that parents with conscientiousness, openness to experience, agreeableness, and extraversion personality characteristics were acceptive parents and parents with neuroticism personality characteristics were rejective parents.