Resilience In Psychological Maltreated Children: Focus On Their Cognition Of Social Relations

Adversity is the test for human being, someone survived from it, someone didn’t.Resilience refers to positive adaptation, or the ability to maintain or regain mental health,despite experiencing adversity, it also concerns a dynamic process that individual copes withcrisis by protective factors. As we all known, childhood experience is so important that mayimpact the future life, even determine our destiny. Family is the first place for a young child,and caregivers’ parenting will influence the development of physical and psychological health.Psychological maltreatment is a repeated pattern of damaging interactions between parent(s)and child, and emphasizes the impairment outcomes on children’s physical and mentalhealthy. This article focus on the resilience of children with psychological maltreatment,explores the stressful situation, some available protective factors and resilient functioning thathelp children survive from psychological maltreatment. The most significant meaning of thisissue is the value of predicting the hindward social adaptation and career achievement ofthese children, and it’s a very important evidence to intervene in the damage by psychologicalmaltreatment.Psychological maltreatment is a common consequence of physical and emotional abusebut also occur as a distinct entity. Most of children are suffering from emotional abuse andneglect while some others were overcoming the adversity. We divided611psychologicalmaltreated children into two groups: resilient and non-resilient by questionnaires. Thepurpose is to detect their cognition of social relations and to find the difference between twogroups with88children. The first step was to detect their implicit attitude toward theirparents by SC-IAT, and then to explore their cognition of teacher-student relationship andpeer relationship by questionnaire and scenario approach.Results turned out:(1) There are297(48.6%) psychological maltreated children among611, and144(49.7%) are resilient while146(50.3%) are non-resilient, the difference ofpopulation is not obvious;(2) there is distinct gender difference, at the same situation wheresuffered psychological maltreatment, the boys with resilient is much more than girls;(3) incomparison with non-resilient children，resilient children have more positive cognition ofimplicit attitude toward parents. That means good relationship with parents is one of theprotect factors;(4) resilient children hold more positive cognition of other interpersonal relationship and willing to talk or ask for help when they need it;(5) effective relationshipwith teachers and peers is positive correlated with psychological maltreated children’sresilience. In some extent, peers relationship and asking for help can predict psychologicalmaltreated children’s resilience.