The Role Of Parents Mentalizing And Family Dynamic For The Children’s Conduct Problems

The current study aimed to investigate the role of family dynamic and parental mentalizing in the development of conduct problems. Mentalizing refers to an individual’s ability to understand or reflect on the context of, or the causes of, self and others’ thoughts and feelings (Fonagy,1991). Fonagy et al (2002) found that mentalization was not an innate capacity,but rather a learned skill based on interactions between children and caregivers. Parental mentalizing refer to this capcity to treat the child as a psychological agent. To measure child mentalizing, children were asked to complete a social vignettes task as a measure of distorted mentalizing. Parents were asked to complete the same task, guessing their child’s responses in the same scenarios as a measure of parental mentalizing. Conduct problems were evaluated using repeated measures from parent-report questionnaires completed. Family dynamic also were evaluated by patents.(1) Due to theresponses of the biases in mentalzing (ON, R, OP) presents three categories skewed distribution. The three categories have significant differences in conduct problems, among which overly positive style (OP) shows more externalizing problems;(2) There is a significant negative correlation between children’ conduct problems andparental mentalization, The higher level of parentalmetallization, the fewer conduct problems children" showing.(3) There are significant correlations among the systematic logical dimension in Family dynamic characteristics,Parental mentalizing and teenagers’ conduct problems, systematic logic and individuation play anpartlymedium between parental metallization and teenagers’ conduct problems;(4) The metalizingattributional style has regulating function between parents’ mind and teenagers’ Behavioral problems;(5) There are significant differences between ordinary teenagers and burned ones in following three dimensions:family atmosphere in the family dynamic characteristics, individuation and disease concept; Since the significant differences between their own mind attribution style and ordinary teenagers, burned teenagers are more inclined to over-positive (OP) type of mind of attribution style, and their parents’ metalizing level was significantly lower than the ordinary teenagers’, which mainly refers to behavioral problems and hyperactivity behavioral dimensions, and the difficulty score was significantly higher than ordinary teenagers; their family atmosphere of family dynamics tends to be dull, aggressive, and systematic logic tends to using the phrases such as "either......or......", showing more behavioral problems, and finally testing the mediating effect of ordinary young people does not apply to burned teenagers.