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Child’s Personality and Perception of Parental Relationship as Correlates of Optimal Experience

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  • Belén Mesurado
  • María Richaud de Minzi

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The study was designed to assess the influence of child’s personality and perception of parental relationship on children’s optimal experiences. We proposed functional and dysfunctional models to analyze the increase or the decrease of the children’s flow experience. The sample of this study included 909 middle class children, aged 9–12 (M = 11.02, SD = 1.08), both sexes, from Argentina. When we analysed the psychological factors that could be related to the flow state in childhood, we found out that the child’s perception of a functional parental relationship, in which there is either acceptance or moderate control, indirectly affects the flow experience, through child’s personality—extraversion, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. Functional personality traits have an important positive effect on optimal experience when they are considered as a unit. In the dysfunctional model of flow, the results showed that the child’s perception of parental pathological control had an important positive effect on neuroticism and –through this—a negative effect on flow. The child’s perception of parental negligence did not have a significant effect on neuroticism; however, neuroticism still maintained its negative effect on flow. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

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  • Belén Mesurado & María Richaud de Minzi, 2013. "Child’s Personality and Perception of Parental Relationship as Correlates of Optimal Experience," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 199-214, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jhappi:v:14:y:2013:i:1:p:199-214
    DOI: 10.1007/s10902-012-9324-8
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