Influence of psychological control and educational style of parents on the psychopathic personality of the only child
- VernacularTitle:父母子女教育心理控制和教育方式与独生子女病态人格的关系
- Author:
Lirong XIAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2006;10(46):184-186
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Recently, psychological problems of only child are increasing rapidly. Therefore, the education and the development of personality of the only-children become a social topic which has attracted a lot of attention.OBJECTIVE: To probe into the influence of parents' educational psychology control and development pattern on children's personality. DESIGN: Simple questionnaire survey and random comparison observation.SETTING: Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University.PARTICIPANTS: The experiment was carried out in the Psychological Room of Mind Department, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University from March 2000 to April 2004. Sixty patients with psychopathic personality were selected in this study. Inclusion criteria: All the patients met the demands of CCMD-Ⅱ-R. Exclusion criteria: Patients who had stunted growth, after-injury brain contraction and psychological retardation were excluded. There were 24 males and 36 females aged 6-21 years with the mean age of (14±5)years. Another 60 healthy subjects served as control group were randomly selected from a nearby high school and a primary school. They were 6-21 years old and with the mean age of (14±5) years. In addition, all of them were only-child and consent.METHODS: According to the EMBU revised by Yue Dong-mei and PLOC compiled by Yu Xin and other editors, in the form of doing a questionnaire by patents, the testing was divided into 3 parts: to test the parents of onlychild using the 2 scaling; to analyze the relativity between the psychological control over children and nurturing patter; to analyze the relativity between the nurturing patterns and children's personality. According to the EMBU, the nurturing pattern could be analyzed in three dimensions: accepting to declining, psychologically independent to psychologically controlled and rigorous to indulging. Result in psychology, which was also called parents' psychological control over children falls into 5 categories:① teaching result; ② responsibility of children; ③ how parents treat and control children; ④ whether the parents are superstitious; ⑤ children's control over parents. A total of 120 questionnaires were sent to the two groups, each of them 60 questionnaires. If all the questions were finished,it could be considered a valid questionnaire.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: the EMBU and PLOC of the two groups.RESULTS: Among 120 questionnaires, 59 from the analysis group were reclaimed, while 60 from control group were valid. ① Eight items (education result to indulging, responsibility of parents to rigorous pattern, children's control to control over children, children's control to indulging,parents' control over children to declining, superstition and belief in fate to declining, superstition and belief in fate to being controlled, superstition and belief in fate to indulging) were all significant differences in analysis group from those in control group (P ＜ 0.05-0.01). ② Among nurturing patterns, spoiling accounted for 47.5% (28/59), then, indulging for 32.2%(19/59), rigorous for 13.6% (8/59), democratic for 5.1% (3/59) and imperious for 1.6% (1/59) in analysis group; whereas democratic accounted for 85.0% (51/60), then, spoiling for 6.7% (4/60), rigorous and indulging for 3.3% (2/60) and imperious for 1.7% (1/60) in control group.CONCLUSION: Different development pattern is derived from different educational psychology controls. The raising pattern is much relevant to the development of only child's personality.
