Relationship Between High School Students‘ Parental Control And Psychological Well-being

Well-being is one of the core issues of positive psychology.Based on different philosophical backgrounds,well-being includes two res earch orientations: one is subjective well-being with "happiness theory" as the core,and the other is psychological well-being with "realization theory" as the core.The research on subjective well-being is more mature,but it has limitations.People measure subjective well-being from the perspective of emotion,but emotion will change with the change of environment and is not stable.Psychological well-being pays more attention to people's personal growth and self-realization,and the understanding of wel l-being is more comprehensive and profound.Senior high school students are in a contradictory state of psychological adulthood and childishness,facing heavy learning tasks and fierce competitive pressure,so they are prone to all kinds of mental health p roblems and problem behaviors.Most of the domestic scholars only pay attention to the problem behavior of senior high school students and its correction,but do not pay enough attention to the role of positive psychological quality in the physical and men tal health growth of senior high school students.However,there is no psychological well-being scale suitable for senior high school students in China.The psychological well-being scale of Ryff abroad has been very mature and is an important measurement tool for the study of psychological well-being.Chinese scholars tried the six-factor psychological well-being scale of Ryff in urban residents and college students,and the results showed that the construct validity was not ideal.Therefore,this study wi ll first revise the psychological well-being scale suitable for Chinese senior high school students,so as to provide a measuring tool for the study of psychological well-being of Chinese senior high school students.Parental control includes behavioral control and psychological control.Parents control their children's behavior by imposing norms and active inquiries,and children feel caring and considerate inquiries from their parents.As a positive way of rearing,it can positively predict the well-being of senior high school students.Parents exercise psychological control by invading their children's inner world and destroying the development of their autonomy.Psychological control negatively predicts the psychological well-being of senior high school students.In theory,parental psychological control can be regarded as the source of stress that affects teenagers' emotional life,and then affects their well-being.Self-determination theory points that people have three basic psychological needs: rel atedness,competence and autonomy.Basic psychological need satisfaction seems to be a reasonable mediating variable between family factors(parental control)and well-being.Parents force children's thoughts and behaviors to reach their goals and expectat ions through psychological control,which brings internal and external pressure on children,restricts teenagers' freedom,threatens their independent needs,and reduces their sense of self-efficacy.It affects teenagers' basic psychological need satisfaction,which leads to a decrease in the level of well-being.Baumrind pointed out that the purpose of parental behavior control is to teach children to understand adult reasoning and finally to make decisions for themselves,that is,to develop autonomy.Und er the parental behavior control and within the reasonable limits set by parents,children are allowed to make decisions for themselves.Clear and reasonable rules provide children with an opportunity to understand the consequences of their behavior.In order to develop their own decision-making ability,help to meet their own needs,and then improve their level of psychological well-being.The study consists of two parts : Study one is revising the tools for measuring the psychological well-being of senior high school students suitable for Chinese local culture,and study two is investigating the influence of parental control on the psychological well-being of senior high school students and its intermediary mechanism.Based on the Ecological system theory,this paper puts forward hypothesis1: parental psychological control will negatively predict the psychological well-being of senior high school students,and parental behavior control will positively predict the psychological well-being of senior high schoo l students.Based on the ecosystem theory and psychological well-being,this paper puts forward hypothesis 2: Parental psychological control will negatively predict the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs of senior high school students,and parental behavior control will positively predict the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs of senior high school students.Hypothesis 3: the satisfaction of basic psychological needs may play an intermediary role in the influence of parental control on psychological well-being.Using the Parental Control Questionnaire,Basic Need Satisfaction Questionnaire and Psychological Well-being Questionnaire reported by senior high school students,750 senior high school students in a high school in Shijiazhuang were tested.SPSS24.0 and Amos7.0 were used to analyze the data,and the following conclusions were obtained.(1)The revised scale of psychological well-being of senior high school students has good reliability and validity and can be used as a tool to measure the psychological well-being of senior high school students.(2)There are significant differences in the sense of personal goal of senior high school students in terms of gender and grade.The level of personal goal of boys is significantly higher tha n that of girls.The level of personal goal in grade one of senior high school is significantly higher than that in grade two.There are significant differences in the psychological well-being of senior high school students in terms of whether they are the only child or not.The score of the only child is significantly higher than the non-only child.(3)There is a significant positive correlation between parental behavior control and psychological well-being of senior high school students,a significant ne gative correlation between parental psychological control and psychological well-being.There is a significant positive correlation between parental behavior control and the basic psychological need satisfaction of senior high school students,a significan t negative correlation between psychological control and the basic psychological need satisfaction.There is a significant positive correlation between the basic psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being of senior high school students.(4)The satisfaction of basic psychological needs plays a complete intermediary role between parental behavior control and psychological well-being of senior high school students.The satisfaction of basic psychological needs acts as an intermediary between the psychological control of parents and the psychological well-being of senior high school students.