The Influence Of Parental Rearing Patterns And Opinions On The Attack Behavior Of Senior High School Students: The Mediating Role Of Moral

Psychologists have been focusing on aggression for several years, and the antecedents and outcomes of aggression have been more thoroughly explored by joining the new variables such as moral disengagement, parenting style and perspective taking. However, the effect of moral disengagement on aggression is not much clear because its measurement was created in the recent years. Perspective taking plays a role in social interaction, and previous researches have indicated that perspective taking and moral disengagement were significantly correlated with aggression, mediated by parenting style.Based on the conclusions of previous researches, the present research conducted a study using questionnaire surveys on senior high school students. The relationship between parenting style, moral disengagement, perspective taking and aggression was investigated; meanwhile the mediating effect of moral disengagement on the relationship between parenting style and aggression was tested. The main results are summarized as follows:1. Positive parenting style had positive effects on perspective taking and aggression; Negative parenting style was significantly correlated with moral disengagement and aggression respectively; The development of perspective taking played a negative role on moral disengagement.2. Moral disengagement partly mediated the effects of negative parenting style on personal aggression. And then some conclusions come:1. Parents’negative parenting style could predict high school students’aggression positively.2. For high school students, moral disengagement could predict aggression positively.3. Besides, moral disengagement partly mediated the effects of negative parenting style on personal aggression.