Early maternal love shapes the key traits of a future person

The latest study of April 2025 proves that affectionate maternity in early childhood can play a permanent role in shaping personality traits, which then affect the educational, professional and health results of the young man. A study with over 2,200 identical twins found that mother’s heat aged five to 10 predicts higher levels of openness, conscience and acceptability of the 18-year-old

I have written many times about the meaning of the child’s emotional tying with the mother as an important element of his further development. It is well known that an emotional relationship mother/child is not only important for the emotional development of the child but is the basis for the development of orbit-frontal part of the brain, which in turn is important for intellectual development, executive functions, attention, etc.
Once again, the latest study of April 2025 proves that affectionate maternity in early childhood can play a permanent role in shaping personality traits, which then affect the educational, professional and health results of the young man. A study with over 2,200 identical twins found that maternal heat between the ages of five and 10 predicts higher levels of openness, conscience and acceptability at the age of 18.
These features are closely related to long -term success and well -being, which suggests that even modest improvements in parenting in the early period of a child’s life could have widespread social benefits. Research also emphasizes that personality development is shaped by the complex interaction of genetics, parenting and life experiences.
Childhood affectionate maternity can have a permanent impact on the important personality traits, potentially affecting life results such as educational achievements, economic success, but also health and well -being, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association.
The findings suggest that positive maternal parenting can stimulate important traits such as openness, conscience and consent.
Personality characteristics are strong predictors for important life results, from academic and career success to health and well -being, according to the authors of this study by the University of Edinburgh.
The findings suggest that encouraging positive environments for early childhood can be moderate, but a significant and lasting impact on the development of these key personality traits. In this context, the researchers examined how the maternal affection in childhood-specifically at the age of five to 10 years-predicts personality characteristics tested with the famous psychometric test « Great Five » at the age of 18.
The large five personality traits are considered by psychologists as the five basic dimensions of the human personality: extraversion, acceptability, openness, conscience and neuroticism/emotional stability.

Researchers were investigating data from 2,232 British identical twins (51.1 percent of women) that were followed from birth to 18 years of age as part of an environmental risk study. Studying identical twins allows researchers to control genetic and environmental factors by comparing identical twins that have grown up in the same family.
During the study, researchers performed home visits to the twin mothers and recorded them talking about each of their children. The trained observers then evaluated the responses of mothers related to heat and affection.
Important findings of this extensive study were that no lasting links were found between maternal affection and extraversion or neurotism.
Twins whose mothers expressed greater heat towards them in childhood were rated as more open, conscientious and more pleasant at a young age.
The results offer evidence that positive affectionate maternity can affect the key traits of a person related to success later in life, and these traits could have an impact on the next generations (transgenerational transmission).
Researchers note that even modest changes in personality can lead to significant benefits to the population over time, especially in promoting conscience, which is strongly linked to success in education, work and health.
These findings suggest that other environmental or genetic factors – such as relationships with peers, life experiences and perhaps later interventions – can be influential in the person in the period of maturity.
The findings also emphasize the importance of taking into account both genetic and environmental factors in designing programs aimed at promoting positive personality traits.
In this context, this research provides valuable evidence of the potential of parenting programs, which should affect the critical aspects of personality development.
However, it also emphasizes the need for nuanced understanding of how different factors, including genetics, parenting and life experiences, communicate to form what we will be as individuals.

Researchers believe that research provides important practical thinking about policy makers and practitioners working in education, family well -being and mental health. Given that conscience can predict school success and in the workplace, interventions designed to improve attached parenting can contribute to improving educational results, mental health and social well -being in a wider scale.
On the other hand, parenting as a social phenomenon becomes quite problematic in modern living. Less marriages, less community living, and on the contrary a large number of divorces are the biggest social problem.
Using data from the Finnish register of over 1.2 million participants, a new study found that both young men and women who were diagnosed with mental disorders are less likely to become parents than those without such diagnosis. The most pronounced effect is observed in people with schizophrenia, while the usual disorders such as depression and anxiety also reduce the rate of parenting – especially in men.
Gender differences were noticeable, with men generally less likely to have children than women with the same diagnosis. The study suggests that the challenges in forming stable partnerships can partially explain these results, stressing the need for the necessary support for mental health for young people upright before the main life choices.
This research comes at a time when many individuals delay parenting for later years. At the same time, young people’s mental health problems have become increasingly present. Most likely there were mental illnesses in the past, but they were less likely to be diagnosed or covered.
Usual mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety, also reduce the likelihood of parenting. For example, men who were diagnosed with depression were 38 percent less likely to become fathers compared to those without the diagnosis of depression. In women, depression was associated with 19 percent less likely to become mothers compared to people without the diagnosis of depression. A similar difference between men and women was also observed for anxious disorder.

The study also researched the role of a partnership status in the relationship between mental disorders and parenting. Since stable relationships are often a key factor in childbirth, the difficulties in forming or maintaining partnerships can partially explain the lower parenting rate in people with mental disorders.
The findings emphasize the need for affordable high quality mental health services for young people. Providing long -term support can be particularly crucial to help people with mental disorders move into life decisions, including in the formation of family.
In conclusion, I would say that creating a family is a serious role in the life of every individual. Mental health is a prerequisite for a good family. The emotional relationship mother/child is extremely important for further personality traits, so all these elements need to be very thinking for preventive purposes.