A Case-controlled Stody of Personality Dysfunction among High School Students / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the effect of parental rearing behavior and related factors of personality dysfunction in adolescents Method:By means of stratified cluster sampling, 9574 students from 25 representative senior high schools in urban and rural areas of Beijing were investigated by PDQ-4 (personality diagnostic questionnaire-4), EMBU and general information questionnaire A case control study based on community was carried out afterwards The cases were the students whose total PDQ-4 score was 42 (means?1 645s) or more The controls were students whose total PDQ-4 score was 25 (means) or less Cases of personality dysfunction (n=531) were individually matched with 1062 controls by age and gender in ratio of 12 The single variable and multivariate conditional logistic regression analyses were performed to screen out the risk factors of personality dysfunction Result: The single variable conditional logistic regression analysis revealed that parental rejection, overprotection, favoring subject, rural area, type of school, poor parental relationship and single parent family increased risk of personality dysfunction, while parental emotional warmth was a protective factor The multivariate conditional logistic regression analysis gave the same results with OR=11 43 for parental rejection, OR=7 68 for overprotection, OR=13 94 for rural area, OR=4 15 for poor parental relationship, and OR=0 50 for parental emotional warmth There was no association between personality dysfunction and nationality, family income, single child family or level of parental education Conclusion:Personality dysfunction in adolescents is closely related to family environment