The Relationship Among Awareness Of Parental Conflict And Aggressive Behavior Of Adolescents: The Mediating Role Of Self-differentiation

In order to discuss the influence of adolescents’ aggressive behavior whichcaused by awareness of parental conflict and the effect of self-differentiation. Theauthor selected1096adolescents randomly to be tested by using the Children’sPerception of Inter-parental Conflict Scale, Aggression Questionnaire andDifferentiation of Self Inventory-Revised. This study used SPSS16.0and AMOS17.0software for data entry and analysis.It found:(1) The Children’s Perception of Inter-parental Conflict Scale, AggressionQuestionnaire and Differentiation of Self Inventory-Revised have good reliabilityand validity.(2) About the Children’s Perception of Inter-parental Conflict Scale, thereexists diversity in the demographic variable quantity which does not includewhether he/she is the only child and where he/she lives. In the terms of gender, thetotal score of the girls which concerns the two dimensions（the conflict solution andthe conflict contents）is higher than the boys. In the terms of grade, the score of theSenior Grade Three which concerns all the dimensions is higher than others. In theterms of family structure, there exist diversities in conflict frequency and conflictcontents. In the terms of father’s cultural degree, there exist diversities in conflictintensity, conflict frequency, cognitive threat and conflict contents. In the terms ofmother’s cultural degree，there exists diversities in conflict intensity, conflictfrequency and cognitive threat.(3)About the Aggression Questionnaire，there exists some differences indemographic variables. It’s manifested in many ways. In gender, the scores of theboys in physical aggression and hostility is higher than the girls. About the grade,the total scores of the Senior Grade Three is lower than the Junior high schoolgrade. About where he/she lives, the score of the adolescents from the rural areas ishigher than the one from the city areas. In the terms of father’s cultural degree, there exists diversities in Angry; In the terms of mother’s cultural degree, thereexists diversities in indirect aggression.(4) About the Differentiation of Self Inventory-Revised, it has somedifferences in demographic variables. In gender, the score of the boys in physicalaggression and hostility is higher than the girls. In the terms of mother’s culturaldegree, there exists diversities in I-Position, the scores of the adolescents whosemother had high school or technical secondary school degree is higher than whosemother had primary school education.(5) Correlation analysis shows that awareness of parental conflict, aggressivebehavior and self-differentiation level has correlation，and it achieve significantlevel. Aggressive behavior has positive related with self-differentiationlevel(r=0.180，p<0.01);Awareness of parental conflict has negative related withaggressive behavior（r=-0.232，p<0.01）; Awareness of parental conflict hasnegative related with self-differentiation level(r=-0.089，p<0.01)。(6) The adolescents’ perception of inter-parental conflict andself-differentiation level both have good predictive effects on Aggressive Behavior.Self-differentiation has mediating effect between the awareness of parental conflictand aggressive behavior.