Parents Of Middle School Students Locus Of Control And Their Mental Health

Parental psychological control is parent imposing their intention of control on the development of their children's psychological and feeling when they communicate with each other.The adolescent' parental psychological is that parents imposing their idea and conduct requirements on their children,such as cognitive,mood and constraint. Studies found that parental psychological control would interfere with and manipulate the child's cognitive, emotional and behavior, and thus hinder the development of mental and emotional health, affecting mental health of adolescent. For this reason, it is of great value to analysis of the factors influencing young people's healthy growth and guide the conduct of family education.This study adhered to the idea as following:from the analysis of literatures to theory-construction, then compile the tool, the next is questionnaire survey, following is the exploratory of the characteristics, which is followed by the inquiry of the relationship. Based on the above idea, the research consulted the literatures and questionnaire before us, built the construction of the parents' psychological control for teenagers with the help of the open questionnaire survey and collected reference. At the same time, the research compiled a questionnaire on parents' psychological control, and through the exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), the author found the constructive factors of parents' psychological control on teenagers. At last, the research analyzed the characters of the teenagers' parents' psychological control, as well as checked the relationship between the parents' psychological control on teenagers and the mental health. Basing on the above procedures, the conclusions are as followings.1. The questionnaire of parents' psychological control compiled by the research is in keeping with the requirements of the psychological measurement, so it can be a tool for measuring the parents' psychological control on teenagers.2. The questionnaire, which has high internal consistency among the factors, has four factors, concluding the expectation of achievements, invasion of privacy, inhibition to expression and feeling of unvalued ability.3. On the whole, parents'psychological control on teenagers was in the middle level. The development of the factors concluded in the control was unbalance. The level of expectation of achievements was significantly higher than the other three factors and invasion of privacy, inhibition to expression and feeling of unvalued ability were all in the middle level.4. The effect of gender on parents' psychological control didn't differ significantly. (1) Sex did't have effect on parents' psychological control.(2) The type of school had effect on the parents' psychological control, that is different kind of schools had different levels of inhibition to expression, and the students in normal schools suggested that their parents would interrupt the chart.(3)The research found that grade had effect on the parents' psychological control. Students in the first grade of junior and senior middle school had higher expectation of achievement than others, and the lowest is the third year of senior middle school. For the factors of inhibition to expression and feeling of unvalued ability, the students in the second and third grades in junior middle school got higher score. Be different from all other factors, on the factor of invasion of privacy, the grade difference was not noticeable.(4)If the youths are the only child in their families, they got more score than the other on the factor of invasion of privacy.(5) The rural students got higher score than the urban ones on parental psychological scale.On the whole, there was notable difference among the factors of expectation of achievements, invasion of privacy, and feeling of unvalued ability.5. Study found that the parents' psychological control is remarkable related to the mental health, on the other hand, the higher of the parents' psychological control, the better of the mental health of the youths. The relationship between the various factors of mental health and the three factors of the parents'psychological control is noticeable, however, the expectation of achievements only related to interpersonal sensitivity. The parents' psychological control could forecast the mental heath. The factor of invasion of privacy, inhibition to expression and the feeling of unvalued ability are the important factors that forecast the somatization and depression, and invasion to privacy and feeling of unvalued ability forecasted the factors of anxiety, hostility, photic anxiety, and psychoticism. At last, the two factors of invasion to privacy and inhabitation to expression forecasted the factor of interpersonal sensitivity.