The Relationships Among Family Functioning, Emotion Regulation And Attachment For Problem Juvenile

The US criminal scientist Hirschi puts forward in social control theory thatproblem behaviors of teenagers can be prevented by attachment relationships,whichare the outcome of muti-factors.Family functioning is one of the important exteralfactors,and emotion regulation is one of the important interal factors.This study aimsto discuss the characteristics and relationships among family functioning, emotionregulation and attachment of problem juvenile,then investigate the effect byformulating rational emotive education against emotion regulation which infulencesattachment.This study includes four sub-study,the first study reveals the characteristics offamily functioning, emotion regulation and attachment for problem juvenile;thesecond one explores the specific relationship of family functioning, emotionregulation and attachment for problem juvenile;the third one tests the mediate effecton emotion regulation between family functioning and attachment;the fourth onediscusses the effect of rational emotive education for problem juveniles’cognitivereappraisal and checks the impact of parental attachment.A sample of74problem juveniles come from special school are investigatedthrough Family Assessment Device(FAD),Emotion Regulation Scale(ERS),Inventoryof Parents and Peer Attachment(IPPA).All the survey datas are analysed by Ttest,correalation analysis and multiple linear regression.The results are as follows:(1)There is no significantly difference about family functioning in gender of problemjuveniles but behavior control;(2)There is no significantly difference between expression suppression and cognitivereappraisal for problem juveniles,but male problem juveniles are superiorer thanfemale problem juveniles in expression suppression;(3)The peer attachment is significantly superiorer than parental attachment thoughthere is no significantly difference between parental attachment.The result ofcomparison in gender is that male problem juveniles are superiorer than femaleproblem juvenile in the attachment to father,embodied in trust toward attachment;(4)The family functioning of problem juvenile can negatively predict trust andcommunication of attachment while postively predict alienation of attachment.Therole degree can significantly negative predict cognitive reappraisal strategy. Inaddition to alienation from mother, cognitive reappraisal strategy can predict trust andcommunication toward parental attachment;(5)Cognitive reappraisal mediate the relation of family functioning of problemjuvenile and parental attachment;(6)At last,the short-term intervention to emotion regulation shows that rationalemotive education can improve using cognitive reappraisal srategy,then infulenceattachment.