Interaction of Parental Discipline Strategies and Adolescents’ Personality Traits in the Prediction of Child-to-Parent Violence

Background: Child-to-parent violence is a family issue that needs systemic and integral approach for its evaluation. The main objective of this longitudinal study was to assess the moderating effects adolescents’ borderline personality psychopathic traits (grandiose-manipulative, callous-unemotional, impulsive-irresponsible dimensions) in predictive association between inadequate parental strategies (psychological aggression, corporal punishment, ignoring misbehavior) child-to-parent violence. Sex differences were analyzed. Method: community sample comprised 671 adolescents aged from 12 17 years old (Mage = 13.39, SD 1.15; 50.8% girls, 47.7% boys, 1.5% non-binary), assessed twice, six months apart each other. Results: Results showed slightly different patterns towards fathers mothers – misbehavior predicted aggression toward mothers, while psychological fathers. Moderation analyses both child-to-father (CFV) child-to-mother (CMV) only significant who high trait CFV those scored low trait. Some sex specificities emerged. Conclusions: These findings support relevance working on parents’ discipline add need work emotional regulation prevent or deal with