The Relationship Between The Structure Of Middle-school Students' Psychological Competitiveness And Parenting Style

Competitiveness is the psychological inclination demonstrated by individuals'cognition, attitudes, strategies and motivation towards the competition of the society. It influence the style of one's communication methods, behavior, enthusiasm and mental health. In contemporary society, competitiveness is one of the essential quality. Positive and healthy competitiveness can inspire one's potential, command people's creativity and in that to get good results. To the middle-school students, the tough competition has laid great burdens to them, and becomes one of the most important source of pressure. But the current psychological researches on middle-school students'competitive psychology are very few. In order to explore the characteristics of competitive psychology about middle-school students this research was wrote. On the basis of consulting foreign studies related to competitive psychology. Study methods such as literature analysis, personal interview, open questionnaires, questionnaires survey, through exploratory and confirmatory factory analysis. We proposed the questionnaire of competitive psychology of middle-school students. Then the questionnaire of the competitive psychology was used as a measure instrument to analyze the difference of demographic variables in the dimensions, and also we explored the relationship between competitive psychology and their parenting styles. The conclusion shows:Firstly, the competitive psychology should be a multidimensional variable consist of personal development competition, group status competition, hyper-competition and inter-pressure competition.Secondly, the competitive psychology is different significantly in some demographic variable. On group status competition and inter-pressure competition male are significantly higher than female. There is no significant difference between the students from city or country and one-child a family or not. But the students from emphasis classes have more hyper-competition than that from regular classes. Thirdly, competitive psychology is extremely correlated with parenting styles. The affection-wormed, indulgence, trust-encourage, and authoritarian parenting style have positive prediction significant influence on competitive psychology.