Family Chaos And Children’s Aggressive Behaviors

Aggressive behavior is one of the common problem behaviors in early childhood,which not only endangers and hinders the current development of young children,but also can predict the future behavior development and social adaptation of young children.Therefore,it’s important to explore the affecting factors and of aggressive behavior,and the exploration of the complex mechanisms between factors also important.Developmental contextualism holds that the development of children depends on the continuous interaction between the developing individual and the situation,and the distal environment plays a indirect role through proximal environment.Family chaos is an important factor of family,which has been widely focused by worldwide in recent years.Family chaos is a risk environmental factor affecting the development of children’s physical health and mental health,which plays a negative role on children’s physical health,cognitive and social development.On this basis,this study intends to explore the relationship between family chaos,children’s aggressive behavior,parental psychological aggression and parental negative attribution,and reveal the mediation effect of parental psychological aggression and the moderation effect parental negative attribution between family chaos and children’s aggressive behavior.The main objectives of this study are:(1)exploring the general characteristics of children’s aggressive behavior;(2)exploring the relationship between family chaos,parental psychological aggression,parental negative attribution and children’s aggressive behavior,and reveal the complex mechanism of parental psychological aggression and parental negative attribution between family chaos and children’s aggressive behavior.In this study,650 parents from 2 kindergartens in Jinan and Tai’an were investigated.The data were collected by self-report of parents.The findings are as follows:(1)Children’s aggressive behavior is different in gender,boys’ aggressive behavior is significantly more than girls’ aggressive behavior;children’s aggressive behavior is not significantly different in age;children’s aggressive behavior is also not significantly different in parents’ occupation,the level of parents’ education,the leval of family income and family structure.(2)Family chaos can significantly positively predict children’s aggressive behavior and parental psychological aggression,and family chaos can indirectly affect children’s aggressive behavior through parental psychological aggression.(3)parental negative attribution plays a moderating role in the process of family chaos in parental psychological aggression.In families with high parental negative attribution level,family chaos can further predict children’s aggressive behavior through parental psychological aggression,while in families with low parental negative attribution level,family chaos can only predict children’s aggressive behavior directly,but can’t affect children’s aggressive behavior through parental psychological aggression.Parental negative attribution does not play a moderation role between parental psychological aggression and children’s aggressive behavior.