Correlation Research On The Withdrawal Temperament Of Children, Problem Behaviors And Sensory Integration Ability

Since the 1980, child withdrawal behavior has become a new hot topic. More attention was paid on types, stabilities and mechanisms of withdrawal behavior. Now Parent Temperament Questionnaire(PTQ), Parent Symptom Questionnaire(PSQ) and Children Sensory Integration Development Scale were administrated to 280 patents of the children to examine the relationship among children's withdrawal temperaments, problem behavior and sensory integration ability, and then explore the predictive ability of withdrawal temperaments on problem behavior and sensory integration ability and the mediating effect of sensory integration ability between withdrawal behavior and problem behavior for children. The hope was paid to reduce the incidence of childhood problem behaviors in early years, provide corresponding measures to sensory integration dysfunction and mental health care for children, and present references to theoretical research for withdrawal temperaments, we have conducted extensive studies. The results are as follows:1) Withdrawal temperaments for Children have differences among different types of kindergartens. Compared with children in kindergartens founded by corporations and provincial or municipal government, children in private kindergartens are more withdrawn. But there was no significant differences in withdrawal temperaments among different genders, grades and parental occupations.2) There are gender and grade differences in problem behaviors for children. The level of hyperactivity and impulsivity of boys are higher than that of girls. Overall performance of problem behaviors for children in primary classes exceed that in middle classes or top classes, and problem behaviors in middle classes are significantly reduced, while in top classes, it is seen to increase slightly. Different types of kindergartens only affect impulsivity and hyperactivity for children. Specifically, children in military founded kindergarten are seen the most problems in impulsivity and hyperactivity, and children in university founded kindergartens are seen the fewest. Father's occupations have effects on behavior differences, while mother's occupations have effect on psychosomatic disorders for children. Children are seen to have fewer behavior problems with fathers working for the government than that working for commercial organizations, and children are seen to have fewer psychosomatic disorders with mothers working for government than that working for commercial organizations.3) Children's sensory integration abilities have gender differences. Overall performance for girls is better than that of boys. There are significant differences in large muscles and balance capabilities for children in different grades, but no difference among different types of kindergartens. Father's occupations play important role in the difference of tactile over-defensive, emotional instability, and learning ability, while mother's occupations affect children's learning ability significantly.4) Correlation and regression analysis shows that there is close relationship between withdrawal temperaments and problem behaviors for children, together with sensory integration abilities. Inhibition temperaments have strong predictive ability for factor 2 learning ability, factor 5 anxiety and sensory integration ability, and tactile over-defensive and emotional instability.5) Children's tactile over-defensive and emotional instability work as partial and full mediator between factor 2 learning problems and factor 5 anxiety in withdrawal temperaments and problems.