| The objective of this study was to investigate the relations among elementary school children's attachment to parents, trait meta-mood and school life satisfaction and if there were significant gender and grade differences on them, especially to explore the indirect Predictive influence of the trait meta-mood.476 elementary school students completed a self-report survey that assessed their attachment to parents, trait meta-mood and school life satisfaction.The results of the research were the following:(1) There were no significant gender differences in elementary school children's attachment to parents and the girl students' score was significantly higher than the boy students' on the sensitivity. There were no grade differences on attachment to parents.(2) There were no significant gender and grade differences in elementary schbol children's trait meta-mood ability and only on mood repair, the scores of elementary school children from grade 2 was significantly higher than those from grade 3.(3) The elementary school children's school life satisfaction had no obvious gender difference, but had obvious grade difference. The scores of elementary school children from grade 1 was significantly higher than those from grade 2 and grade 3. and There was no difference between grade 2 and grade 3.(4)Except the sensitivity of attachment to parents, all the dimensions of the attachment to parents questionair, trait meta-mood scale and school life satisfaction questionair were closely related each other.(5) By the analysis of liner regression and SEM, attachment to parents had direct predictive influence on school life satisfaction, and By direct effect the choice of the trait meta-mood, attachment to parents had indirect predictive influence on the elementary school children's school life satisfaction.(6) The elementary school children's attachment to parents influenced on the school life satisfaction, and the trait meta-mood had mediating effect between them. |
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