The Experimental Study On The Relationships Between Self-Esteem, Aggressiveness And Parenting Style

The relationship between self-esteem and aggressiveness has always been the focus of attention. The traditional view thinks that one who has low self-esteem is prone to lead to attacks and shows many behavioral problems. Baumeister raises question about the traditional viewpoint that he thinks high self-esteem leads to aggressive behaviors because it needs courage to raise attack which is exactly the performance of high self-esteem. The third standpoint deems that there is no obvious relation between self-esteem and aggressiveness. Parenting style has a significant influence upon children's psychological development. This thesis intends to have a throughout research into the relations between self-esteem, aggression and parenting from the aspects of conscious and unconscious, namely the explicit and implicit levels.The first study uses the experimental method to explore the implicit attack and implicit self-esteem. The second experiment applies the investigation method to study to explicit attack and explicit self-esteem. Part three discusses the relationship between implicit self-esteem, explicit self-esteem and implicit, explicit attacks. Part four probes into the influence of parenting style on self-esteem and aggression.The following conclusions are drawn from the above-mentioned studies:(1)There is no marked difference in implicit self-esteem, implicit aggressiveness and explicit self-esteem between genders; however, on explicit aggression, there is obvious variation that the male are higher than female.(2)There is no significant difference in self-esteem and aggression between subjects from different source regions.(3)There is notable difference in self-esteem and attack between different grades.(4)There is remarkable difference between the groups of low implicit low explicit self-esteem, low implicit high explicit self-esteem, high implicit low explicit self-esteem and high implicit high explicit self-esteem in implicit aggression and explicit aggression.(5) The group of high explicit self-esteem is more likely to raise attack than the group pf low explicit self-esteem. (6) Parenting style has a significance influence on explicit self-esteem and explicit attack(7) Parenting style has a significance influence on the individual of the different types of self-esteem group and attack group.(8) There is no significant correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem. It is the same with the relations between implicit attacks and explicit attacks, implicit self-esteem and implicit attacks. But explicit self-esteem and explicit attacks are negatively correlated.(9) The mother's severe punishment has a negative predictive value on explicit self-esteem while father's warmhearted understanding is having a positive predicting effect.(10) Explicit self-esteem and the father's warmhearted understanding are negative predictors to explicit aggressiveness. However, it functions as positive prediction when the father refuses, denies, gives excessive protection or heavily interferes.