Background and Purpose: Because of limited studies on some of the factors such as empathy, personality disorder syndrome and parents' impulsivity in the development of symptoms of children's externalizing, the present study aims at identifying the role of empathy, personality disorders and Impulsivity parents in predicting the symptoms of 7-12 years old children's externalizing. Method: The present study was a descriptive study of correlational studies. 100 students (68 boys, 32 girls) from Shahreza in Isfahan province primary school students were selected by cluster random sampling. Student parents were asked to complete Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (Millon, 1994), Davis Empathy Questionnaire (Davis, 1983), Barrat Impulsivity (Barrat, 1959) and Child Behavior Checklist 6-18 year old children (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001). Data analysis using correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis stepwise. Results: The results showed that there was a significant relationship between personality disorder (r=0.477) and externalizing, In contrast, there was no significant relationship between empathy and impulsivity (p <0.01).In addition, the results of multivariate regression showed that personality disorders (borderline, Narcissistic and passive) of parents could predict the tendency toward the symptoms of externalizing, but empathy and impulsivity were not predictive of the tendency toward the symptoms of externalizing. Overall components were able to explain 22.9% of the variance of the symptoms of children's externalizing. Conclusion: the role of personality disorder syndromes (Borderline, Narcissistic, Passive) the tendency toward the externalizing symptoms is confirme. Criteria for severe personality disorders directly refer to an inability to adequately control anger or high levels of aggression .Therefore, in the field of interventions and the evaluation of the factors affecting the externalizing symptoms of children, attention is also drawn to the role of parental personality disorder symptoms externalizing.
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Special Received: 2024/06/2 | Accepted: 2024/05/30 | Published: 2024/05/30