The Associations Between Childhood Psychological Abuse And Subjective Well-being Of Junior High School Students

As a kind of implicit form of abuse,psychological abuse has a very common occurrence probability,and its form of occurrence is very concealed that is not easy to detect.Until recently,a number of researchers are gradually paying great attention to this issue.Adolescents who have been suffered psychological abuse in childhood are likely to retain some negative emotional events in their memory,and then they are prone to problems such as inferiority and emotional depression during their growth,which will seriously affect all aspects of their lives.This study adopted such methodology such as questionnaire(childhood psychological abuse scale,life satisfaction scale,emotional balance scale,adolescent psychological resilience scale,emotional memory measurement using autobiographical memory clue word technology).A total of 605 junior high school students from a middle school in Panyu district of Guangzhou were conducted a questionnaire survey.On one hand,we will investigate the mechanism of childhood psychological abuse on subjective well-being,and the mediating role of emotional memory between the psychological abuse and subjective well-being and the adjustment effect of psychological resilience were further studied.And on the other hand,according to the survey results,a psychological resilience group counseling programs was successfully designed that aims at improving psychological resilience and happiness.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:(1)Childhood psychological abuse’s intimidation dimensions,subjective well-being,emotional memory,psychological resilience have significant differences in grades.Childhood Psychological abuse and some dimensions(intimidation,interference)have significant differences in family economy;subjective well-being have significant differences in whether there is only one.(2)Childhood psychological abuse and its whole dimensions are significantly negatively correlated with emotional memory,psychological resilience,and subjective well-being.Emotional memory,psychological resilience and subjective well-being aresignificantly positively correlated;childhood psychological abuse and its partial dimensions(intimidation,neglect,derogation,interference)have a significant negative predictive effect on emotional memory and subjective well-being.(3)Emotional memory plays a partial intermediary role between childhood psychological abuse including its dimensions of intimidation,neglect,derogation,interference and subjective well-being,of which emotional memory accounts for the largest proportion of the intermediary role between interference and subjective well-being.(4)Psychological resilience regulates the direct path between childhood psychological abuse and subjective well-being.And psychological resilience regulates the second half of the intermediary process of childhood psychological abuse affecting subjective well-being through emotional memory.Therefore,childhood psychological abuse,emotional memory,psychological resilience and subjective well-being together constitute a regulated intermediary model.(5)Based on cognitive behavior theory and kumpfer’s elastic framework theory,through intervention training on psychological resilience,the intervention training has generally promoted the improvement of students’ psychological resilience and has significantly improved their happiness.Therefore,this research expands the understanding of the impact of psychological abuse,helps to enhance the emphasis on psychological abuse,and to a certain extent prompts the caregiver to fully recognize the impact of psychological abuse on children’s emotional memory and happiness level.Also,the school carrying out practical activities suitable for the psychological characteristics of junior high school students to improve the psychological resilience of students.