The Relationship Between Parent-child Attachment And Explicit And Implicit Aggression In Left-behind Children: The Mediating Role Of Loneliness

In recent years,"School Violence" among left-behind children has become a frequent problem.The alienation between them and their parents,the lack of care and education from their parents are probably the reasons for their aggression and even school violence.Children's aggression has always been the classic research field of developmental psychology.This research is based on the theory of attachment and attachment of the internal working model,used cross-sectional study design,and combined with social attribution model and social information processing model to investigate the relationship between parent-child attachment and explicit and implicit aggression of left-behind children,and further explore the role of loneliness in the relationship between parent-child attachment and explicit and implicit aggression of left-behind children.In the current thesis,left-behind children in grade four,five and six of primary schools were selected as the subjects.Based on the double aggression model,which that explicit aggression and implicit aggression do not belong to the same system but are independent of each other,the relationship between parent-child attachment and explicit and implicit aggression of left-behind children was explored through two studies.In the study one,767 subjects were selected through a questionnaire survey to explore the relationship between parent-child attachment and explicit aggression of leftbehind children,and establish a relationship model to further explore the mediating effect of loneliness between the two.In the study two,114 subjects were randomly selected to measure children's implicit aggression through the Implicit Association Test(IAT),to explore the correlation between parent-child attachment and implicit aggression of left-behind children,and to establish a relationship model to further explore the mediating effect of loneliness between the two.Results of Study 1 showed that:(1)Maternal attachment and paternal attachment were negatively correlated with explicit aggression and loneliness.Loneliness was positively correlated with explicit aggression.(2)Maternal attachment and paternal attachment significantly negatively predicted explicit aggression and loneliness of left-behind children.Loneliness positively predicted explicit aggression of left-behind children.(3)Loneliness partially mediated the relationship between maternal attachment and explicit aggression,and paternal attachment and explicit aggression,accounted for44.2% and 33.3% of the total effect,respectively.Results of study 2 showed that:(1)Maternal attachment and paternal attachment were significantly negatively correlated with implicit aggression.Loneliness was positively correlated with implicit aggression.(2)Maternal attachment had a significant direct on implicit aggression,and maternal attachment was a significant negative predictor of left-behind children's implicit aggression.Loneliness can positively predict implicit aggression of left-behind children.(3)Loneliness played as a partial mediating role in maternal attachment and implicit aggression,and the mediating effect accounted for 31.3% of the total effect.Based on the above research results,it can be concluded that there is a significant negative correlation between parent-child attachment and explicit and implicit aggression.Parent-child attachment can significantly and negatively predict left-behind children's explicit aggression,while maternal attachment can significantly and negatively predict their implicit aggression.Loneliness have a partial mediating effect between parent-child attachment and explicit aggression,and between maternal attachment and implicit aggression.