Research On The Relationship Between Parenting Styles Of Junior Middle School Students And Their Mental Health

With the aid of questionnaires and auxiliary interview etc, the correlation between parenting styles and mental health among all 905 junior middle school students has been investigated. Conclusions are listed as follows:1. The parenting styles between male and female students are significant difference. Fathers' punishment strictness and rejection towards male students is significantly higher than female ones.2. There are significant differences among three grades in students' parenting styles .3. There exists significant nationality difference in mothers' emotional warmth between Chinese and Mongolian students.4. There are no evident differences between different sexes and male junior middle school students' mental health are better than female ones.5. There are no significant differences among three grades in the levels of junior middle school students' mental health. It rises from grade one to grade two,while falls from grade two to grade three.6. There exists significant nationality difference in learning anxiety and impulse tendency between Chinese and Mongolian students.7. There are significant differences between junior middle school students' parenting styles in variant healthiness conditions. Positive parenting styles have good effect on their mental health while negative ones haven't.8. There is a significant positive correlation between students' mental health and their parents' punishment,rejection,strictness and overprotection.There is a significant negative correlation between students' mental health and their parents' warmth.9. To some extent, fathers' emotional warmth and mothers' overprotection could be used to predict the mental health of junior middle school students. Fathers' emotional warmth benefits to mental health while mothers' overprotection doesn't.In accordance with the above conclusions, a few educational suggestions are put forward to make parents know how to teach their children in order to make relationship well between parents and their children and to lead to better mental health of junior middle school students.