Father presence on the psychological health of middle school students / 预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective @#To understand the influence of father's presence in parenting on the mental health of middle school students and to provide evidence for mental health intervention for adolescents.@*Methods @#A total of 893 students from 24 classes of 4 middle schools in Urumqi was selected by convenience sampling method. Chinese revision of Father Presence Questionnaire designed by Pu Shaohua et al and Self-rating Scale for Mental Health of Middle School Students designed by Gao Xiang et al were employed to collect the information. Linear regression model was used to analyze the association between the involvement of father in parenting and mental health of middle school students.@*Results @#There were 804 valid responses（90.03%）. The scores of emotion,perception,physical interaction,relationship between parents and mother's perception of father-son relationship of Father Presence Questionnaire were 3.66±0.79,3.50±0.72,3.43±0.95,3.67±0.87 and 3.62±0.92,respectively. The scores of adaptation,resilience and perplexity dimension of Self-rating Scale for Mental Health of Middle School Students were 3.56±0.56,3.72±0.71 and 2.53±0.74,respectively. The results of multivariate linear regression analysis showed that emotion（β'= 0.174）,physical interaction（β'=0.074）,relationship between parents（β'=0.099）,mother's perception of father-son relationship（β'=0.316）and education level of father（β'=-0.132）were influencing factors for the adaptation dimension;emotion（β'=0.201）,perception（β'=0.129）,mother's perception of father-son relationship（β'=0.211）and education level of father（β'=0.126）were influencing factors for the resilience dimension;emotion（β'=-0.189）,relationship between parents（β'=-0.206）and education level of father（β'=0.129）were influencing factors for the perplexity dimension.@*Conclusion @#The mental health of middle school students and the degree of their father's participation in parenting were at moderate levels. Father's educational background,the degree of participation in parenting and the relationship between parents could affect the mental health of middle school students.