Parental Psychological Aggression and School-Aged Children’s Problem Behavior: Mediating Roles of Children’s Anger and Sadness Management

doi:10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.04.007

Abstract

Abstract: The current study aimed to explore the potential differences in the emotional mechanism between parental psychological aggression and children’s problem behavior. A total of 660 children in grades 3~5 of primary school and their parents participated in the questionnaire survey. The results showed that: 1) Paternal psychological aggression was positively correlated with children’s externalizing problem behavior. Maternal psychological aggression was positively correlated with children’s internalizing problem behavior. 2) Anger dysregulation mediated the relationship between maternal and paternal psychological aggression and children’s externalizing problem behavior; sadness dysregulation mediated the relationship between maternal psychological aggression and children’s internalizing problem behavior; anger coping mediated the relationships between maternal psychological aggression and children’s internalizing and externalizing problem behavior. The results indicate that the emotional mechanism of parents’ psychological aggression on children’s problem behavior varies according to children’s emotion types and emotion management strategies.

Key words: psychological aggression, problem behavior, anger management, sadness management

摘要： 以660名小学中高年级儿童及其父母为被试，采用问卷调查法探讨父母心理攻击与学龄中期儿童内外化问题行为之间潜在情绪机制的差异。结果发现：（1）父亲心理攻击显著正向预测儿童外化问题行为，母亲心理攻击显著正向预测儿童内化问题行为；（2）儿童愤怒失调在父亲和母亲心理攻击和儿童外化问题行为之间起中介作用，儿童悲伤失调在母亲心理攻击与儿童内化问题行为之间起中介作用，儿童愤怒应对在母亲心理攻击和儿童内外化问题行为之间存在中介作用。结果表明，父母心理攻击影响儿童内外化问题行为的情绪机制因儿童自身情绪类型与管理策略的不同而表现出差异性。

关键词: 心理攻击, 问题行为, 愤怒管理, 悲伤管理

CLC Number:

B844

XING Xiaopei, JIAO Menghan, XIAO Yuyuan, HU Xia. Parental Psychological Aggression and School-Aged Children’s Problem Behavior: Mediating Roles of Children’s Anger and Sadness Management[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2022, 20(4): 479-486.

邢晓沛, 焦梦涵, 肖宇苑, 胡夏. 父母心理攻击与小学中高年级儿童问题行为的关系：儿童愤怒和悲伤管理的中介作用[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2022, 20(4): 479-486.

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