Study On The Relationship Between Adolescent Mental Resilience And Parental Rearing Patterns And Attribution Style

Mental Resilience， also known as psychological resilience， refers to the ability ofindividuals to adapt well to various adverse environments and to recover rapidly after sufferingsetbacks or blows. Generally speaking， Mental Resilience consists of the following two parts:protective factors and resources inside the individual and protective factors and resources outsidethe individual. Researches on Mental Resilience dated from the1970s and1980s in America.With the research going further， researchers in China have done lots of researches on MentalResilience based on China’s traditional culture background.The teenagers， in adolescence a significant stage for human development， will facevarious pressures from inside or outside， from big changes or trivial matters in life. Someadolescents can grow healthily and thus lay a good foundation for sound development in thefuture by forming correct value and life outlook. While some adolescents may start to rebel， tohate studying， to fall in puppy love， or even to smoke and drink and to go into fights. How todeal with the various problems arising in the adolescence is our first concern.Mental Resilience，a variable closely related to pressure，will inevitably play an importantrole in adolescents’ coping with adversity. Therefore， it is meaningful to study the mentalresilience of ordinary adolescents of different ages and genders. This study will explore therelationship between adolescent mental resilience and parental rearing patterns and attributionstyle so as to figure out whether parental rearing patterns and attribution style have an obviousinfluence on the mental resilience of adolescent of different ages. Meanwhile， the mediation ofattribution style between the parental rearing and mental resilience is also investigated in thestudy.The group sampling is adopted in this study.402students， chosen as the subjects， will be investigated using the Resilience Scale for Adolescents， the Parental RearingStyle Questionnaire and the Children’s Attribution Style Questionnaire. And the main findings are as follows: First of all， overall， adolescent mental resilience present no significant difference ingender， but differ strikingly from age to age， with young group scores higher than the olderone.Secondly， parental rearing styles were positively related to adolescent mental resilience ineach dimension. What’s more， negative attribution is negatively related to adolescent mentalresilience， while positive attribution is positively related. Moreover， parents’ acceptance toparticipate and their strict supervision were also positively related.Thirdly， no difference exists in either gender or age on the predictive effect that parentalrearing styles have on adolescent mental resilience. Among the parental rearing styles， parents’acceptance to participate and psychological autonomy can predict adolescent mental resiliencepositively， while strict supervision have no significant predictive effect.Fourthly， no age difference exits in attribution style’s predictive effect on adolescentmental resilience. However， the predictive effect that positive attribution has on mentalresilience differs in gender， while that of the negative attribution has no difference in gender.Meanwhile， negative attribution can predict adolescent mental resilience negatively， whilepositive attribution can predict positively.At last， in terms of parental rearing styles such as parents’ acceptance to participate andstrict supervision， adolescent positive attribution serves as an intermediary in predictingadolescent mental resilience. However， negative attribution has no such intermediate function.