The Relationship Of Parent-child Conflict And Adolescents’ Aggressive Behavior:Temperament As A Moderator

Adolescents’ aggression have been a major public and healthy problem in the world, it has a significant negative impact for the physical and psychological health of adolescents. Therefore adolescents’ aggressive behaviors have been hot topics in the study of developmental psychology. More importantly, it is the basis of scientific preventing and controlling adolescents’ aggressive behaviors to study the influential factors and mechanism.According to the underlying function and motivation, the researchers divided adolescents’ aggressive behaviors into proactive aggression and reactive aggression(Crick & Dodge, 1987), Although These two subtypes of aggression has a certain degree of co-occurrence, there is increasing evidence to suggest that children’s proactive and reactive aggression have different antecedents and consequences and that this distinction has implications for diagnosis, prevention, and intervention(Schwartz et al., 1998; Vitaro, Brendgen, & Barker,2006).As a poor family factor, parent-child conflict has been got the attention of the researchers, and the studies have obtained a consistent conclusion: parent-child conflict is one of the major sources of stress for teenagers and can significantly affect children’s behavior(e.g. Aggression). But according to the condition of theory and reality, face the same parent-child conflicts, adolescents may not show the same aggressive behaviors. Temperament may play a moderator in the relationship between parent-child conflict and adolescent aggression. In addition, there is interaction between different dimensions of temperament.In class cluster sampling,the selection of 12 schools of JiNan 1245 grade students as subjects, using adaptation of Dodge and Coie(1987) the teacher evaluation questionnaire, Prinz, Foster, et al.(1979) compiled by the parent-child conflict self-perception inventory and early adolescent temperament questionnaire revised measured teenagers proactive/reactive aggression, parent-child conflict and temperament characteristics. Used for measuring validity questionnaire has a good letter. The data included aggression scores, parent-chlid conflict scores and temperament scores of adolescence. Regression were conducted to analyse the prediction of parent-child conflict and temperament to adolescents’ aggressive behavior. We got the main results:1、the strength of Father-child conflict of proactive aggression, reactive aggression there is a direct positive prediction effect, but the intensity of adolescent aggression and conflict directly forecast effect is not significant. In addition, the strength of Father-child conflict prediction effect on youth proactive aggression, gender differences, embodied in the boy’s father and son conflict intensity than girls of parent-child conflict intensity for proactive aggression have a significant positive prediction function.2、the frequency of parent-child conflict for the proactive aggression reactive aggression, there is a direct positive prediction function, but the frequency of the mother and child conflict for adolescent aggression direct prediction effect is not significant. The frequency of parent-child conflicts(mother-child conflicts and parent-child conflict frequency) for the adolescent aggression prediction effect there is no gender difference3、 Negative emotion significantly positively predict adolescents’ proactive and reactive aggression, will control, outgoing performance significantly negative enough to predict adolescents’ proactive and reactive aggression, affilianess for teenagers to attack the forecast effect is not significant. No significant interaction effect between different dimensions.4 、 Negative emotional can morderate the relation between intensity of mother-child conflict and youth proactive aggression and reactive aggression, in line with the dual risk model, namely the temperament of the negative emotions can aggravate mother-child conflicts with strength to teenagers the negative impact of the attack.5、Afilianess can morderate the relation between intensity of mother-child conflict and youth proactive aggression fits a pattern of risk buffer, namely the high level of sense of belonging to buffer and intensity of conflict for teenagers initiative attack.6、Effortful control can morderate the relation between the frequency of parent-child conflict and youth proactive aggression behavior plays a significant role in the relationship between the adjustment, also accord with risk buffer model, the will to a high level of control to buffer parent-child conflict frequency of youth initiative to make the risk of attack. This cushion gender differences, the more apparent in boys.With the existing theory, integrated the study for parent-child conflict and youth initiative attack and reactive aggression, and temperament, in this paper, the following conclusions:1、Father-child conflict for adolescents to the positive direct prediction effect of aggression, and the forecast effect is more obvious in the boys. And the mother-child conflicts for teenagers to aggression directly effect was not significant.2、The characteristics of temperament of negative emotions, the positive direct prediction effect for teenagers to aggression, the attack for teenagers will control, extraversion have negative prediction function directly. The sense of belonging for teenagers attack there is no direct prediction effect. Temperament dimensions for teenagers to aggression the interaction does not exist.3、Temperament characteristics of negative emotion and sense of belonging in the mother-child relationship between conflict and adolescent aggression plays a modecter role. Will control in parent-child conflict and youth initiative aggression relationship plays a regulatory role, this regulation is more obvious in the boys. Extraversion in parent-child conflict and regulating role in the relationship between adolescent aggression does not exist.