The Impact Of Parental Conflict On High School Students’ Cognitive Assessment And Emotional Insecurity

Interparental conflict has been proven to be one of the main risk factors affecting the development of children and adolescents,and it played an important role in individual cognitive and emotional development.Driven by process-oriented research,domestic and foreign studies have found that cognitive assessment of interparental conflict and emotional insecurity are important underlying mechanisms of interparental conflict affecting individual development.At present,most of the domestic studies on interparental conflict have been limited to explore the mechanism of interparental conflict adaptation to individual development,and there still are some room can be improved.Based on the analysis of related research on interparental conflict and real life,this study will clarify the role of father-child relationship and mother-child relationship in the impact of interparental conflict on emotional insecurity and cognitive assessment of high school students,based on family system theory.Foreign studies have found that interparental conflict not only affected the cognitive and emotional development of individuals,but also the long-term experiences of interparental conflict situations can lead to changes in the function of the individual’s brain cognitive neural network,affect the internal information processing process of the individual,and manifest as a significant negative cognitive bias.In order to further study the impact of interparental conflict on the individual’s cognitive and emotional system.Based on the first study,the second study will use the emotional picture recognition paradigm to explore the impact of interparental conflict on the cognitive processing of emotional faces in high school students.Study 1: 715 high school students completed questionaires measure of interparental conflict,parent-child relationship,emotional insecurity and cognitive assessment.Study 2: 70 high school students were recruited as test subjects in high school.The second study uesd 2(group)× 4(emotional face types: happy,neutral,sad,and angry)mixed design on the index of reaction time and accuracy to explore the impact of interparental conflict on emotional face processing in high school students.The main results of the study are as follows:(1)The correlation analysis showed that interparental conflict was significantly and positively correlated with cognitive assessment and emotionalinsecurity;Cognitive assessment had significantly positive correlation with emotional insecurity;Interparental conflict had significantly positive correlation with father-son conflict and mother-child conflict,and had significantly negative correlation with father-son cohesion and mother-child cohesion.(2)Father-child cohesion played a moderating role in the relation between interparental conflict and negative emotions.As the level of father-child cohesion increased,interparental conflict had a stronger predictive effect on the negative emotions of high school students.(3)Father-child conflict played a moderating role in the relation between interparental conflict and self-blame.In the high and low groupings of fathert-child conflict,interparental conflict significantly predicted the level of self-blame.(4)In the second study,the data analysis results showed that the main effect of the interparental conflict group was not significant(F=4.79,p>0.05),the main effect type of emotion type was significant(F=9.52,p<0.05),and the interaction between the groups and the emotion types was not significant(F=0.63,p>0.05).Father-child cohesion played a moderating role in the relation between interparental conflict and negative emotions.Father-child conflict played a moderating role in the relation between interparental conflict and self-blame,and the mother-child relationship is not significant.High school students with high parental conflicts have no significant cognitive bias towards negative emotional faces.