Research On The Psychological Maltreatment Positive Junior Students' Mental Health

Psychological Maltreatment is a kind of maltreatments that comes from the parents or the guardians of children, and the maltreatment action is continuant, repetitive and uncorrectable. It's harm for the children's social, cognitive and emotional development, except the physical and sexual maltreatment. It consists of five dimensions: terrorizing, ignoring, belittling, intermeddling and corrupting.Objective: The research tries to find the relationship among the psychological maltreatment, attachment, sense of school belonging and metal health. Method: Cluster sampling was used to select 349 psychological maltreatment positive junior students as subjects. Use T test, ANOVA, analysis of regression and the estimation of mediating effects methods.Results:(1) 50.8% of the junior students are abused, with terrorizing being its most type, and belittling being lest.(2) The occurrence of junior students'psychological maltreatment isn't associated with gender. In grade factor, the psychological-maltreatment-positive rate showed statistically significant differences. The higher the grade is, the higher positive rate is reported. In the dimensions of intermeddling, the father who has received higher education will intervene more in children. The rate is highest in the family that the mother has no formal work.(3) To the psychological maltreatment positive students, females scored higher than males on a measure of attachment to peers. The attachment significantly differs from the grades. The junior students at grade eight scored highest on both parents and peers attachment, while the grade nine scored lowest. The overall trend of attachment tends to ascend first and decline then.(4) Among the psychological maltreatment positive students, female scored higher than males on a measure of sense of school belonging. The students who are on duty in class have stronger sense of school belonging. The higher the grade is, the lower the sense of school belonging is.(5) The positive students scored higher in Child Psychological Maltreatment Scale, the level of mental health and parent and peers attachment is lower. The attachment and the sense of school belonging can predict the level of mental health.(6) The peers attachment and the sense of school belonging partially mediate the relationship between psychological maltreatment and mental health.Conclusion: The psychological maltreatment is common in China. In order to help psychological maltreatment positive students, we can make efforts on the relationship between peers and school belonging. In other words, let them get more security from school to make up the maltreatment taken from the family.