The Influence Of Family Parenting Styles On Mentally Healthy Of Country Left-Behind Children

According to the factual problems faced to Left-behind children and the deficiency of past researches, this paper made an examination on family parenting styles and mentally healthy of Left-behind children, using MHT and EMBU and self-edited examination questionnaire on living situation of Left-behind children, in order to investigate the relationship between parenting styles and mentally healthy.Randomly adopted 1000 students from 6 country middle schools and 4 country elementary schools, and get 813 available subjects. We can find that: the percentage of Left-behind children is the largest in the whole children, especially Left-behind children who have only one parent; and mentally healthy situations of Left-behind children are poorer than those who are not, the poorest are children who are looked after by compeers or even no rearings; the situations of children who have been Left-behind children also are not so good, there are significant differences mentally healthy between them and those who have not been, while anxiety scores are only a little lower. And there are differences in sex, grade, quarter, single or not and years parents being out among those who are Left-behind children. There are differences of parenting styles among different styles of children caring. Totally speaking, the scores on positive parenting styles of no left-behind children(such as warmth of father and mother) are higher than those who are and who have been left-behind children, but the scores are obviously lower on negative parenting styles such as punishment from father or intervening punishment from mother. The regression equation of anxiety scores on left-behind children set by parenting styles also depends on children caring styles. Positive parenting behaviors of parents and caring people have positive influences on mentally healthy of children, for instance, some supporting and mood warmth., while some negative behaviors such as rejection have negative influences. Indeed, there are some parenting styles which have positive influences on certain children group, while have negative influences on other types of children.