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The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between university students' personalities and their perception of their mothers' control in predicting self-reported anxiety. This was a cross sectional descriptive analytical study and included 50 students from Isfahan University. Cattell Anxiety Questionnaire, Mother Control Questionnaire, and NEO-FFI Questionnaire were used to measure student's anxiety, their mothers' control and their personality characteristics. Data were analyzed by analysis of variance, regression, two way variance analysis and Tukey's test. The findings of this study showed that student's perceptions of control are an independent predictor of anxiety, unrelated to students' personality. Among five factors of personality, three [high emotional instability, low agreeableness, and low conscientiousness] were independent predictors of anxiety, unrelated to students' perception of control. This study revealed a relationship between perception of mothers' control and anxiety. Personality traits such as emotional instability, high agreeability, and high conscientiousness were associated with anxiety. Other findings of this study showed that interaction between emotional instability, agreeability and conscientiousness with mothers' control had a relationship with anxiety. The results of this study stress the importance of preventive measures by using educational and advisory plans for mothers about different personality traits of children and methods of relationship between mothers and children
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Background and aims: Temperament is an innate tendency in human which is the basic regulator for their behavior. This study was a med to slandardize the Middle Childhood Temperament Questionnaire [MLTQ] and to determine the relationship between childhood temperament and their age, gender, academic mean score and parental educational level and income in Iranian culture
Methods: This was a descreptine analytical study in which 1000 elementary school students [8-12 years old] from 5 areas of the city of Isfahan were randomly selected. Reliability, validity, MANOVA and Pearson's correlation tests were used for data analysis
Results: Findings showed that by eliminating two from nine factors of middle childhood temperament questionnaire, this questionnaire would be valuable for evaluating childhood temperament and had a satisfactory reliability and validity for 8 to 12 years old children. Finally the results delineated significant difference between the seven factors of temperament based on the children's age, gender, academic mean score and parental education level and income
Conclusion: Result showed a good fanction of Isfahanian children in the middle childhood temperament questionnaire, as a means of interpretation for temperament scores for other children in this city. Results also showed that different temperamental traits in different cultures make individuals talented to special demographic characteristics