The relationship between perceived parental acceptance-rejection, personality and behavioral dispositions, and executive function in a Turkish primary school sample
The relationship between perceived parental acceptance-rejection, personality and behavioral dispositions, and executive function in a Turkish primary school sample

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between perceived parental acceptance-rejection measured by The Child Parental Acceptance Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ), psychological adjustment measured by the Child Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ), and executive function measured by the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) in a group of primary school children. The study was conducted with 59 fourth grade students selected from two low SES primary schools in Istanbul. High scores on the PAQ, which indicate impairment of an individual’s psychological adjustment, were found to be related with many of the subtests of PARQ, suggesting that psychological adjustment is negatively influenced by perceived parent rejection. In relation to the total scores on the PARQ, a significant relation was found between the father form of the PARQ and perseverance scores and the number of errors on the WCST. Multiple regression analysis was computed in order to see the effects of WCST on the PAQ total scores, when PARQ mother and father scores were held constant. WCST error and WCST perseverance had a significant effect on total PAQ scores when PARQ mother and father scores were held constant. In a hierarchical regression model, when gender and father scores for the PARQ were held constant, WCST perseverance had a significant effect on the hostility aggression subtest and emotional instability subtest of the PAQ, suggesting perseverance is related to problems is psychological adjustment.

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