The Impact Of Changes In Divorced Families And Their Parenting Styles On The Behavior Of Junior High School Students

In order to explore the influence of the divorced families on the psychological development of teenagers, the study focuses on the differences of their parental rearing patterns, family structures and problem behavior. With the help of EMBU and CBCL, 226 students from non-divorced families and 208 students from divorced families of Kunshan No.2 Middle School were chosen as subjects. The data was done the difference analysis and correlation analysis.The following are the research results:First, the various factors of parental rearing patterns have significant differences in the non-divorced families, divorced single-parent families and divorced-married families. The mean of parents' emotional warmth and over-interference factors in non-divorced parents are higher than that of divorced single-parent families and divorced-married families.Second, there are significant differences in the behavior of male students, such as somatic complaints, splitting sample, bad communication, compulsivity, hostility, disciplinary violation, aggressivity and hyperactivity in the non-divorced families, divorced single-parent families and divorced-married families. There are significant differences in the behavior of female students in the non-divorced families, divorced single-parent families and divorced-married families. The mean of problem behavior of the students in divorced-married families is significantly higher than that of non-divorced families.Third, in divorced families, there is no significant difference between family structures and male students' problem behavior, there is difference between family structures and female students' anxiety compulsivity factor. The mean of students'problem behavior in grandparents rearing families is higher than that in parents rearing families. Parental rearing patterns have a significant influence on the behavior of male students and female students, such as splitting sample, bad communication, compulsivity, hostility, aggressivity.Fourth, in divorced families, the emotional warmth, over-interference, and punishment severity factors of father's rearing patterns are related to the problem behavior of male and female students. The emotional warmth of mother's rearing style, denial, preference, severity of mather's rearing patterns are related to the problem behavior of male and female students.The conclusion are summed up as follows:Divorced families have caused the change of parental rearing patterns. And grandparents rearing pattern reflects the lack of close relationship between parents and children to some extent. This will increase the probability of problem behavior in the development of the child.