A Follow-up Study On The Inlfuence Of The Parents-children Relationship And Companion Relationship To The Loneliness Of The Middle School Students In The Countryside

Loneliness is a negative and diffuse mental status. Long-term aloneness can bring aboutconsiderable pain to teen-agers, as a result, they will not find their social belonging and alsotheir self-esteem will descend. Teen-agers who are chronically under this state won’t adaptthemselves well. Favorable parent-child relationship and peer relationship play an importantrole which adult can’t replace. For example, they will do good to their acquirement of socialvalue, cultivation of social ability, achievement of school work and sound development bothcognition and personality. But unhealthy parent-child relationship and peer relationship willpossibly lead to teen-agers’ aloneness.The middle school stage is very important for the individual in the transformation fromchildhood to adolescence. Youngsters in this stage have many physiological andpsychological changes, and so do the relationship between them and their parents. Thisresearch investigates the parent-child relationship of rural middle school students，Surveyresults show that the general status of rural middle school students’ parent-child relationship isgood. However, parent-child conflicts are common. And the deep talking between childrenand their parents is not too much.At present, most researchers choose urban teenagers rather than rural teenagers asresearchers’ objects. But at present the economy、the culture、the education and social lifebetween the city and the result of the country might not the same as the countryside. Thisresearch selects the rural middle school students as the objects. The researcher adoptsParent-child Relationship Questionnaire and Loneliness Questionnaire as the tool to accessthe condition of the relation, which are filled by the children. Then collect their four year’sdata and do up research. This research uses the group sample and the purpose is to explore therelationship among these three factors. Some related studies showed that:1. There was significant gender difference on scores of loneliness for junior high schoolstudents in rural areas，and boys Show higher loneliness than girls; There was also significantage difference on scores of loneliness, Repeated measure of analysis of variance showed thatthe scores of loneliness increases by the growth of age. 2. For both parent-child relationship and peer relationship,there were no significantgender and age differences for these rural-area teen-agers.3. For teen-agers of rural areas, there was positive correlation between parent-childrelationship and peer relationship; there were negative correlation between parent-childrelationship and loneliness, peer relationship and loneliness.4. Parent-child relationship can directly influence teen-agers’ loneliness, parent-childrelationship can also influence their loneliness by peer relationship, so the peer relationship isan intervening variable.5. Parent-child relationship and peer relationship of Junior middle school first grade candistinctly predict the loneliness, the third and the fourth grade; Parent-child relationship andpeer relationship of Junior middle school second grade can distinctly predict the loneliness ofthe third grade; Parent-child relationship and peer relationship of Junior middle school thirdgrade can distinctly predict the loneliness of the fourth grade.