The Impact Of Parental Conflict On Aggressive Behaviors Of Children And Adolescents Under Different Family Structures

The aggressive behavior of children and adolescents is an important part of the social development of elementary and middle school students.To explore the influencing factors and mechanisms of aggressive behavior of children and adolescents is of great significance in psychological research.Previous studies have shown that parental conflict is an important factor influencing aggressive behavior of children and adolescents.Children and adolescents who grow up in a high parental conflict environment tend to show more aggressive behaviors.However,there are relatively few studies on the internal mechanism of parental conflict affecting children and adolescents' aggressive behavior in China,including comparative studies of children and adolescents in different family structures,and discriminatory studies of children living in divorced single-parent families.This information will help to improve the understanding of aggressive behavior of children and adolescents,and to carry out targeted prevention and intervention.Therefore,this article grasps the comprehensive impact of family factors on children and adolescents' aggressive behavior as a whole.A total of 659 students from grades three to nine of ordinary middle and primary schools in Shanxi and Henan provinces were selected as the research objects.The questionnaire used the parent conflict feature scale,parent-child conflict feature scale,and child and adolescent aggression scale as research tools.Using parent-child conflict as a mediating variable and family structure as a moderating variable,explore the relationship between parental conflict and aggressive behavior in children and adolescents.Conclusion as below:(1)Aggressive behaviors of children and adolescents are significantly different in gender.Boys are higher than girls in physical and indirect aggressive behavior,showing more aggressive behavior.However,there is no significant difference in grade.(2)Children and adolescents' perceptions of parental conflicts differ in gender and grade.The specific performance is: compared with girls,boys are more sensitive in perceiving the intensity of parental conflict;compared with primary school students,junior high school students are more sensitive in the frequency and intensity of parental conflict.(3)In terms of parent-child conflict,boys have higher scores than girls in the total scores of parent-child conflict,physical conflict,and verbal conflict.The grade differences are only reflected in the dimension of physical conflict.Compared with primary school students,physical conflict in junior high school students is higher elementary school students.(4)Parental conflict,parent-child conflict and aggression are closely related.Both parental conflict and its dimensions can positively predict the aggressive behavior of children and adolescents,while parent-child conflict only positively predicts the aggressive behavior of children and adolescents in the dimension of physical conflict.(5)Parent conflict can indirectly affect the aggressive behavior of children and adolescents through parent-child conflict.Parent-child conflict plays a part of mediating role,and family structure regulates the first half path of moderating effect.(6)There are no significant differences in the parent-child conflict between children and adolescents in divorced single-parent families with different caregivers,but only in the indirect aggression dimension of aggressive behavior.