RESUMO
Objective To investigate changes of family parenting styles after the reforn and opening in China and its influence on mental health.Methods On the base of stratified convenience sampling,a valid sample of 429 were recruited from Wuxi and Hefei city residents:1960s group 103 persons,1970s group 107 persons,1980s group 116 persons,and 1990s group 103 persons.Subjects' childhood parenting styles were surveyed with the family upbringing style questionnaire(FUSQ) and their current mental health status was rated with the psychological symptom inventory-100 (PSI-100).Results (1) Except understanding-blame,and expects-demanding,and mother respect-humiliation and mother warmth-wildness,there were significant age differences on other parenting styles (P＜ 0.05),their scores were gradually increased from 1960s group ((38.29± 6.30)-(44.99± 7.36)) to 1980s group ((40.96±6.05)-(48.53±7.91)),1990s group declined((40.13±7.27)-(46.97±6.61)).(2) Most parenting style dimensions were significantly negatively correlated with symptom total score (r=0.095-0.308) and mental symptom scores (r=0.090-0.330).(3) The family parenting styles had significantly effects on the symptom total score (explained variance of 20.3％) and mental symptom scores (explained variance of 12.4％-21.5％).Conclusion There have been some positive,open and scientific changes on the family parenting styles after the reform and opening in China,childhood family parenting styles have long-term effects on mental health of youth and adult.
RESUMO
Objective To explore the relationship between college students' psychological health status,family parenting styles and personality characteristics using the structural equation model.Methods A total of 4 866 College students (2 122 males,2 744 females) were surveyed with NEO five-factor inventory (NEO-FFI),family upbringing style questionnaire(FUSQ) and psychological symptom inventory-100(PSI-100).Lisrel 8.7 was used to construct the structural equation model.Results NEO-FFI total score was 198.08±15.31,PSI-100 total score was 167.08±68.23,father upbringing style questionnaire total score was 457.80±62.10,and mother upbringing style questionnaire total score was 459.27±61.91.For the factors of personality,the more influential factors were agreeableness,conscientiousness and openness.There was a negative correlation between good personality and psychological symptoms(path coefficient =-0.73,P＜0.05).For the factors of family parenting styles,parenting dimension scores (such as mother's democracy,encouragement,understanding,father's supervision,respect) were negatively correlated with psychological symptom scores(path coefficient=-0.18,P＜0.05).Conclusion Family parenting styles can directly affect the psychological symptoms and the personality status,thereby affecting mental health of college students.Personality characteristics could be a mediated variable to regulate the relationship between family parenting styles and psychological health of college students.