Psychological Development and Education ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2): 219-228.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2018.02.11

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The Relationship between Parental Psychological Control and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems of Children with ODD: The Mediation Effects of Father-child Attachment and Mother-child Attachment

HE Ting1, SONG Zijing2, DING Wan1, LIU Wei3, LIN Xiuyun1   

  1. 1. School of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    3. Huangchenggen Primary School in Xicheng District of Beijing, Beijing 100034
  • Online:2018-03-15 Published:2018-03-15

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Abstract: The present study aimed to explore the relationship of parental psychological control and the internalizing (depression) and externalizing (aggression) problems among children with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and investigate whether the parent-child attachment would play a mediator role in the relationship between parental psychological control and children's problems. Totally, 246 children with ODD and their class master teachers from 14 elementary schools in Beijing, Shandong and Yunnan participated the study and completed the scales. Children completed the Parental Psychological Control, Parent-child Attachment and Children's Depression, and class master teachers completed the Children's Aggression. Data analysis revealed that:(1) Compared to girls, boys with ODD had more emotional and behavioral problems; (2) Boys perceived significant much more paternal psychological control; (3) Parental psychological control positively correlated with parent attachment and children's depression, only paternal psychological control positively correlated with children's aggression; (4) Only mother-child attachment mediated the relationship between maternal psychological control and depression. Unfortunately, parent-child attachment didn't mediate in the relationship between parental psychological control and aggression behavior among children with ODD.

Key words: oppositional defiant disorder children, parental psychological control, parent-child attachment, depression, aggression

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  • B844

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