Effect of maternal psychological status and family structure on social emotional development of toddlers / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effect of maternal psychological status and family structure on the social emotional development of toddlers.Methods The study was conducted in January 2016,50 toddlers aged 12 to 36 months from one kindergarten in Dalian were selected with cluster random sampling.The parents of toddlers were interviewed,and the questionnaire for background condition,the socialemotional assessment scale for children and SCL-90 for maternal psychological status were applied.The effect of maternal psychological status and family structure on the social-emotion development of toddlers was analyzed.Results The positive rates of externalizing,internalizing,deregulation and competence in 50 toddlers were 24％ (12/50),14％ (7/50),20％ (10/50) and 22％ (11/50),respectively.The scores of obsession and anxiety in high school and college graduate mother group were higher than junior high school group(F =6.488,5.834,all P ＜ 0.05).The scores of obsession,interpersonal relationship,depression and anxiety in unhappy mother group were higher than those in happy mother group (t =7.812,3.860,5.871,6.843,all P ＜ 0.05).Compared to happy mother group,the abnormality rates of externalizing behavior [42％ (10/24)vs.8％ (2/26),x2 =10.667,P =0.001],internalization behavior [25％ (6/24) vs.4％ (1/26),x2 =0.000,P =0.008] and behavior disorder [33％ (8/24)vs.8％ (2/26),x2 =7.200,P =0.007] were significantly higher in unhappy mother group.There were significant differences in positive rate of externalized behavior among mothers with different educational levels (junior high school,high school and college graduate) (8/15,3/17 and 1/18,F =9.757,P ＜0.05).There were significant differences in respond ability of children among families with different structure (single-parent family,joint family,direct family and nuclear family) (3/5,1/4,7/28 and 0/13,F =8.134,P =0.026).Conclusion The abnormal rates of children's externalization,internalization and deregulation behavior are higher for mothers with emotional unhappiness,and the abnormal rate of children's competence in single-parent family,joint family and direct family are higher than that in nuclear family.