| The mental health status of children and adolescents has always been one of the important aspects of family,society and national concern.Therefore,it is important to study the mental health of children and adolescents.Nowadays,the phenomenon that grandparents assist their children to raise their grandchildren is becoming more and more common.Therefore,the mental health of their grandchildren is influenced by their grandparents and their parents.The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of the grandparents' rearing style(grandparents' dictatorship,grandparents' trust and encouragement,grandparents' emotional warmth,grandparents' spoil,grandparents' neglect)and parental rearing style(parents' dictatorship,parents' trust and encouragement,parents' emotional warmth,parents' spoil,parents' neglect)on the mental health of children and adolescents(including total difficulties scores,aggressive behaviors,prosocial behavior,and subjective well-being),in the case of grandparents assisting their fathers to raise their grandchildren.In this paper,a questionnaire survey was conducted to distribute 800 questionnaires to many primary schools(3-6 grades)and many middle schools(grades 7-9)in Shanxi Province,762 valid questionnaires,with an effective rate of 95.25%.This study used SPSS22.0 and Amos24.0 for data entry and analysis.The results are as follows:(1)The mental health status of children and adolescents is significantly different in gender,grade,and family rankings.The specific performance is as follows: the aggression behaviors of boys is significantly higher than that of girls;the prosocial behaviors of boys is significantly lower than that of girls;the average level of difficulty scores and aggressive behaviors of primary school students is significantly lower than that of junior high school students;the average of subjective well-being of primary school students is higher than that of junior high school students;the children of only one-child family have higher levels of prosocial behavior and subjective well-being than children of non-one-child families.The children of the only one-child are lower than the children who are ranked second in the non-only family.(2)Comparing to granddaughters,the grandparents adopt more authoritative,cherished,and neglected parenting styles for grandchildren;In the primary school stage of children,parents used more trust-encouraging and emotionally warm parental styles,and more ancestors for their children,and grandparents used more emotionally warm for their grandchildren.In the junior high school stage for children,parents used more autocratic,beloved,and neglected parenting styles,and the grandparents are more adoptive and neglected.Compared with non-only-born families,parents in the one-child family use less authoritarian and beloved rearing styles,the grandparents used less authoritative,beloved,and neglected parenting styles,and more adopted trust-enhanced and emotionally warm parenting styles.In non-one child families,compared with the first-ranked children,the mother less adopts an emotionally warm parenting style for the second-ranked children,and more adopts neglected parenting style;the grandparents' less adopt an emotionally warm style for the second-ranking children.(3)In addition to controlling the three factors of grandchild's gender,grade,and ranking in the family,the mother's authoritarian can positively predict the difficulty scores and aggression behaviors of children and adolescents;the grandparents' autocratic style can positively predict the total score of difficulty of children and adolescents;parental trust and encouragement style can negatively predict the difficulties of children and adolescents,can positively predict the prosocial behavior and subjective well-being of children and adolescents;the grandparents' emotional warm style can negatively predict the total score of difficulties of children and adolescents,can positively predict the prosocial behavior and subjective well-being of children and adolescents;the grandparents' spoil rearing style can positively predict the total difficulty of children and adolescents;the mother's neglected parenting style can positively predict the total score of difficulties of children and adolescents,can negatively predict the prosocial behavior and subjective well-being of children and adolescents.The father's neglected parenting style can negatively predict the subjective well-being of children and adolescents.The grandparents' ignorant rearing style of can positively predict the difficulty scores and aggression behaviors of children and adolescents,and can negatively predict the subjective well-being of children and adolescents.(4)The mother's parenting style has a mediating role between the grandparents' parenting style and the mental health of children and adolescents. |
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