A Study On The Relationship Between Psychological Control, Emotional Management And Attack Behavior Of Senior Middle School Students

The perceptions of parental psychological control is an important concept of parenting theory. It means the children’s perceptions of parents imposing their intention of control on the development of their children’s psychological and feeling when they communicate with each other. Western research has demonstrated that perceptions of parental psychological control and children’s behavior problems are related. Emotion management can explain the influence of parenting to children’s adaptation. This study revised Children’s Emotion Management Scales(CEMS): Anger and Sadness, devised by Zeman and other researchers. The first study investigated the common characteristic of high school students’ perceptions of parental psychological control, emotion management and aggression. The second study explored the effect that emotion management played on the relationship between high school students’ perceptions of parental psychological control and aggression.The results were as follows:(1) The revised scale of Emotion Management Scales had two subscales: sadness management which had 5 items and anger management which had 4 items. The scale had good validity and reliability.(2) High school students’ perceptions of father’s psychological control and mother’s psychological control had significant difference. High school students with different genders grades and parents’ marital status had no significant difference in perceptions of father’s psychological control. High school students with different parents’ marital status had significant difference in perceptions of mother’s psychological control. Students with different gender and grade had no significant difference in perceptions of mother’s psychological control.(3) High school students with different genders and grades had significant difference in emotion management. Students with different parents’ marital status had no significant difference in emotion management.(4) High school students with different gender and grade had significant difference in aggression. Students with different parents’ marital status had no significant difference in aggression.(5) There were significant correlations among high school students’ perceptions of parental psychological control, emotion management and aggression. Emotion management had significantly predicted effect on aggression. Anger management mediated the association between high school students’ perceptions of parental psychological and aggression.