The Relationship Between Aggressive Behaviors Of Preschool Children And Parental Psychological Control

Preschool children’s aggressive behaviors show important effects on the healthydevelopment of their personalities. Aggressive behaviors are usually divided intorelational aggression and overt aggression by researchers. Domestic studies ofaggressive behaviors are mainly focus on middle childhood and adolescent. Preschoolchildren’s aggressive behaviors, especially relational aggression, are relativelydeficient. In the discussion of preschool children aggressive behaviors influentialfactors, as an important variable parental psychological control is intentionalconsiderate. Therefore, this study is focused on the revision of Preschool ChildrenAggressive Behavior Questionnaire-Teacher Form and Parental Psychological ControlQuestionnaire, and to investigate the relationship between them.Three sections are included in the research. The first section is the revision of《Preschool Children Aggressive Behavior Questionnaire-Teacher Form》, the secondsection is the revision of 《Preschool Children Paternal and Maternal PsychologicalControl Questionnaire》, the last section is the discussion of relationships betweenpreschool children aggressive behaviors and Paternal and Maternal psychologicalcontrols. The cluster sampling was used for the investigation. Two kindergartens, inwhich 10 classes, Grade 1, 2 and 3, are separately chosen, totally 352 preschoolchildren, 312 fathers and 330 mothers are tested. Teachers evaluated preschoolchildren aggressive behaviors, fathers and mothers separately self-evaluate their ownpsychological controls. We can make the following conclusion by statistical analysis:1. Two factors, relational aggression and overt aggression, constituted therevision of《Preschool Children Aggressive Behaviors Questionnaire-Teacher Form》.The questionnaire has a good validity which can effectively measure preschoolchildren aggressive behaviors;2. Six factors, Constraining verbal expression, Invalidating feelings, Personalattack, Unstable emotions, Love withdrawal and Guilt induction, constituted therevision of 《Preschool Children Paternal Psychological Control》and 《PreschoolChildren Maternal Psychological Control 》. But project factors differentlyconstituted; the questionnaire has a good validity;3. Significant grade differences were found for preschool children aggressivebehavior score, each aggressive behavior score of Grade 1 children was significantlyhigher than that of Grade 2 and 3 children; preschool children’s overt aggressionsexist significant gender differences; boys were higher than girls in their use of overtaggression.4. There are no significant grade differences and gender differences for paternalpsychological control. As for maternal psychological control, grade differences aresignificant: grade 3 children mothers’ scores are obviously higher than that of othergrades children. Considering the one-child issue, paternal psychological control existsremarkable differences, multiple children’s father show higher level of paternalpsychological control; Based on education level, significant differences exist forpaternal psychological control and maternal psychological control, as for the lowereducation level, parental psychological control level will be higher.5. All kinds of preschool children aggressive behaviors are significantly relatedto maternal psychological control, relational aggression scores and total aggressionscores are significantly related to paternal psychological control. The relationships areeven stronger when children’s genders are same with their parents.