Hygiene and Preventive Medicine
Effect and it's path of family environment, rearing style, and personality on adolescents with mental disorder
Manru Zhang, Guoqiang Wang, Jian Liu, Xiaoqin Zhou, Zaohuo Cheng
Published 2018-04-20
Cite as Chin J Behav Med & Brain Sci, 2018, 27(4): 361-365. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2018.04.015
Abstract
ObjectiveTo investigate the comprehensive effect and impact path of family environment, rearing style and personality on adolescents with mental disorder.
MethodsA sample of 200 adolescents with mental disorders and 228 normal adolescents were tested with Family Environment Scale(FES-CV), Family Upbringing Style Questionnaire(FUSO), Big Five Personality Questionnaire(NEO-FFI-R) and Psychological Symptom Inventory-100(PSI-100). Regression analysis and path analysis were used to explore influence and path of rearing style, family environment and personality on mental health.
ResultsThe total score PSI-100 in case group (204.0±68.6) was higher than that in control group (146.9±38.4)(t=10.43, P<0.01). Regression analysis revealed that mental health was affected by rearing style (R2=0.208) such as mother supervision-control (β=-0.249), father understands-blame (β=-0.195), mother warmth-wildness (β=-0.228) and mother acceptance-rejection (β=0.201), family environment (R2=0.244) such as conflict (β=0.309), organization (β=-0.196) and expressiveness (β=-0.141), and personality traits (R2=0.452) such as neuroticism (β=0.412), agreeableness (β=-0.237) and conscientiousness (β=-0.203). Path Analysis showed that personality traits directly affected mental health (β=-0.90), parenting style indirectly influenced mental health (β=0.51) by personality, the family environment had direct (β=0.20) and indirect (β=0.72) effects on mental health, and the model fits well (χ2/df =2.160, RMSEA=0.052, GFI=0.88, AGFI=0.84, PGFI=0.67, NFI=0.91, RFI=0.89, IFI=0.95, TLI=0.94, CFI=0.95), and three factors explained 61% of variation on symptom total score.
ConclusionThe family environment, family upbringing style and personality traits have significant effect on the adolescent’s mental disorder.The personality traits are the most important variables affecting mental health family upbringing style affect mental health indirectly through personality traits, and family environment directly and indirectly affected on the mental health.
Key words:
Parenting style; Family environment; Personality traits; Mental health; Adolescents
Contributor Information
Manru Zhang
Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214151, China
Hangzhou Seventh People’s Hospital, Hangzhou 310013, China
Guoqiang Wang
Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214151, China
Jian Liu
Hangzhou Seventh People’s Hospital, Hangzhou 310013, China
Xiaoqin Zhou
Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214151, China
Zaohuo Cheng
Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214151, China
