The Relationship Between Perceived Ethnic Socialization And Mental Health Of Jingpo Junior High School Students:Reaction Conflict Situation And Mediating Mechanism

The problem of minority adolescents’ mental health is a relatively weak field in Chinese mental health research and practice. The current running pattern of Chinese primary and schools in ethnic minority areas is “school closure and merger” for centralized school, students need to boarding in school. Many students, especially minority students faced with the lack of family education, culture adaptation and conflict, ethnic bias and other issues, cope with these intense ethnic pressure is a huge challenge for minority youth, it’s particularly important to concern about minority students’ mental health. Perceived ethnic socialization refers to the minority child’s cognition and perception the information regarding ethnicity from their parents. In recent years, on the basis of researching the concept and structure of ethnic socialization, foreign researchers incorporated academic performance, mental health, ethnic identity and other content into the framework of the research field. Results show that ethnic socialization can influence the development of adolescent self- systems, including ethnic identity and self-esteem, an important role in shaping teenagers’ psychology and behavior. As key components of minority family’s education in multinational state, domestic research on ethnic socialization issues and its influencing factors were rare.In current study, questionnaires and situational experiments were used to explore the action mechanism of ethnic identity, self-esteem in the relationship between perceived ethnic socialization and mental health of Jingpo junior high school students.In study 1, 399 junior high school students from Dehong two schools in Yunnan Province completed two open-ended questions survey to collect conflicting stories about the transmission of information typical of ethnic socialization and biases related Jinpo, material preparation for study 2. Content analysis indicated that most conflicting events occurred in the school(especially in the dormitory); the ethnic involved in the conflicts mostly Jingpo and Dai; the type of incidents is that boys tend to fight, girls tend to quarrel; difference in ethnic language is the main reason for the conflicts. Collected a total of 12 prejudices related Jinpo.Study 2 was a situation-experiment designed to research the influence and mechanism about perceived ethnic socialization on mental health of Jingpo junior high school students. According to the result of study 1, two class conflict situations(prejudice conflict situation * no prejudice conflict situation) about Jingpo students in school were compiled. After 335 Jingpo junior high school students were experiencing contextual simulation, level of perceived ethnic socialization, ethnic identity, selfesteem, mental health were evaluated. The results show that ethnic socialization perception had significant impact on Jingpo junior high school students’ mental health:(1) promotion of harmony and cultural socialization perception had a promoting effect, which was completely mediation by ethnic identity, when reaction without prejudice conflict situation, promotion of harmony also had a significantly indirectly affected mental health via the ethnic identity — self-esteem mediational chain;(2) the influence of preparation for bias was not significant, only in the experiencing prejudice conflict situation, preparation for bias can negative affect the subjects psychological well-being, which was completely mediation by ethnic identity, self-esteem level did not intermediary role in the whole process;(3) promotion of mistrust has a negative effect on mental health, which was completely mediation by self-esteem, when reaction without prejudice conflict situation, promotion of mistrust also had a significantly indirectly affected mental health via two mediational variables and a mediational chain, ethnic identity, self-esteem, ethnic identity—self-esteem mediational chain.To sum up, the main draw the following conclusions:1. There was no significant change in ethnic identity, self-esteem, mental health of Jingpo junior high school students whether the conflict situation involvd the ethnic prejudice or not;2. Different types of ethnic socialization perception had different affection and mechanism on Jingpo junior high school students’ mental health:(1) When the conflict situation had bias, promotion of harmony and cultural socialization more through enhanced ethnic identity, thus improving the mental health of the Jingpo Junior High School Students; Promotion of mistrust more through lowered self-esteem, thus reducing the mental health of the Jingpo Junior High School Students; preparation for bias on mental health is not obvious;(2) Only in reacting the conflict situations without prejudice, promotion of harmony and promotion of mistrust had a significantly indirectly affected mental health via the ethnic identity — self-esteem mediational chain, cultural socialization and preparation for bias were not obvious influence on mental health.