Effect Of High School Students’ Experienced Psychological Maltreatment On Loneliness: The Mediating Roles Of Self-concealment And Perceived Social Support

The study aims to explore the relationship among psychological maltreatment,loneliness,self-concealment and perceived social support,and to verify the intermediary effects caused by the self-concealment and the perceived social support between the psychological maltreatment and the loneliness.565 high school students selected from four schools in Heilongjiang province were tested with Childhood Psychological Abuse Scale,Self-concealment Scale,Perceived Social Support Scale and Children Loneliness Scale.The results are as follows:1.In this study,students who experienced psychological maltreatment account for 44.6% of the total number.Psychological maltreatment degree: the level of boys were higher than that of girls;the level of rural students were higher than that of urban students;the level of single parent students were higher than that of whole family students.2.The higher the psychological maltreatment degree,the higher the self-concealment level,the lower the perceived social support level and the more loneliness.3.Take loneliness as the dependent variable,conduct stepwise regression analysis and set up regression equation: ?=3.033+0.055*x1+0.190*x2-0.301*x3(x1: psychological maltreatment;x2: self-concealment;x3: perceived social support).Psychological maltreatment and self-concealment were positive predictive indexes of loneliness and perceived social support was a negative predictive index of loneliness.4.Self-concealment and perceived social support partly played an intermediary role between psychological maltreatment and loneliness respectively;Self-concealment and perceived social support played a chain intermediary role between psychological maltreatment and loneliness.