The Moderated Mediation Effect of Big Five Personality Traits in the Relationships among Mothers’ Perceived Marital Conflict, Parenting Stress, and Happiness: An Application of Latent Moderated Structural Equations

Key Points

• The study aims to investigate the moderated mediation effects of the Big Five personality traits on the relationships among perceived marital conflict, parenting stress, and happiness in mothers.
• Analyzed data from 595 mothers using the 2020 Korean Child Panel 13th Survey.
• Employed latent moderated structural equations to control for measurement error.
• Examined the impacts of personality traits on happiness and the role of parenting stress as a mediator.
• Conscientiousness and agreeableness positively influenced mothers' happiness, while neuroticism and parenting stress negatively affected it.
• Neuroticism moderated the relationship between parenting stress and happiness, with stronger negative effects in high-neuroticism groups.
• Perceived marital conflict negatively influenced happiness through increased parenting stress.

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