The mediator role of personality traits between the relationship of perceived parenthood style and relationship satisfaction in emerging adulthood

In this research, to what extent the perceived parenthood style of emerging adults who are involved in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex (flirt, dating, engagement) in Turkey between the ages of 19-26 directly and via personality traits predict relationship satisfaction is studied. The data of the study was gathered from 417 emerging adults between the ages of 19-26 who are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex for at least 6 months. Participants were asked about their age, sex, the duration of their continuing relationship and the type of the relationship they have via a personal information form. Besides, they were given a personality test based on adjectives, Child Raising Styles Scale which is applied separately to the father and the mother and Relationship Satisfaction Scale. Data was evaluated implementing independent sampling t-test, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Bootstrap based on Regression according to the objectives of this study. In this study, when the perceived parenthood style of emerging adults, personality traits and romantic relationship satisfaction were examined according to sex, no meaningful difference between all scales and sub-dimensions that are outside of emotional instability dimension and relationship satisfaction. The effect of acceptance/care/love that is perceived from the mother over all personality features except the openness to experience is considered meaningful. When the effect of acceptance/care/love perceived from the father over personality traits examined, it is observed that it has a positive effect on agreeableness, conscientiouness, extraversion and openness to experience and a negative effect on emotional instability. The effect of strict supervision/control perceived from the mother over agreeableness is negative and ıts effect over emotional instablity is positive. The effect of strict supervision/control perceived from the father is considered meaningful only on emotional instability amongst personality features. In models examined in context of the research, openness to experience and emotional instability is seen to perceive the relationship satisfaction in emerging adults. According to the results of mediation analysis of personality features in the relationship between acceptance/care/love perceived from the mother and relationship satisfaction in emerging adulthood, the mediation effect of emotional instability between acceptance of emerging adults which is perceived from the mother and relationship satisfaction is revealed to be statistically important. According to the results of regression-based bootstrapping analysis which is carried out to test the mediation of personality features in the relationship between acceptance/care/love perceived from the father and relationship satisfaction in emerging adulthood, the mediation effects of emotional instability and openness to xperience are seen to be statistically important. Yet, the direct effects of acceptance perceived from the father and the mother on relationship satisfaction are found to be statistically unimportant. The direct and total effect of strict supervision and control on relationship satisfaction is seen to be statistically unimportant and that the personality features are not mediating this relationship.