Psychological Science ›› 2012, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 911-915.

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Child neglect and peer acceptance:the mediating effect of negative behavior

LIU AiShu1, 2   

  1. 1. Harbin Normal University
    2. dalian
  • Received:2010-11-23 Revised:2011-09-30 Online:2012-07-20 Published:2012-09-29

儿童忽视与同伴接受:消极社会行为的中介作用

刘爱书1,年晶2   

  1. 1. 哈尔滨师范大学
    2. 辽宁省大连市旅顺口区青少年教育保护办公室
  • 通讯作者: 年晶

Abstract: Child neglect is a worldwide problem. As the progress of the social civilization, it gradually become a hot issue in the field of international child research. Many foreign scholars have paid widespread attention to the field of child neglect. However, there are few special study domestically. Because of traditional opinions and cultural differences, we do not have a good understanding of child neglect. The research of child neglect has never got enough attention and concern in the field of psychology, research to the psychological consequences of it is less. Child neglect is a serious question. With the rapid development of economy and society in China, parents have lots of problems of their own to face and deal, they are unable even to fend for themselves with intense competition and mental pressure. It provides possibility under such circumstances for them to neglect their children more easily. According to the foreign reports, Neglect influence not only children’s physical development, but children’s socialization development as well.As for the research of the socialization, researchers concern about not only results of socialization but also its process. So the present study try to examine both negative consequences of child neglect and influence mechanism between child neglect and future development. As we know, social behavior and peer acceptance are two important role in children socialization development, this study will demonstrate the adverse influence to children with socialization process through discussing on the relationship among child neglect, social behavior and peer acceptance. Meanwhile, base on the relationship between social behaviors and peer acceptance, researchers inferred that, social behavior has mediating the effect of child neglect on peer acceptance. The results are helpful to make clear the current status of child neglect and direction of further research with the intention that both get the knowledge of and pay attention to it in order to intervention. Questionnaire(CPANS)method and sociometric nomination were applied to explore the relationship of child neglect with negative behavior (aggression, withdraw, victimization) and peer acceptance. 503 primary school students from grade 4-5 in three primary schools of Harbin were took part in this study. All data were processed by SPSS and AMOS, correlation analysis, structural equation model were used to analysis. The results showed that: Total of scale and emotional neglect, educational neglect were positively correlated with victimization(P< .05), physical/supervisory neglect were positively correlated with withdrawal behavior(P< .05). But aggressive behavior showed no significant correlation to the dimensions of scale(P> .05).Significantly negative correlation was found between child neglect and peer acceptance(P< .05), especially on educational neglect and physical/supervisory neglect. Results from SEM indicated that child neglect has impact on peer acceptance through 2 type mediator effect: neglect–victimization–peer acceptance, neglect–withdrawal behavior–peer acceptance. physical/supervisory neglect were positively predicted the extent of withdrawal behavior and physical/supervisory neglect were negatively predicted the peer acceptance. Through the mediating role of children’s negative behaviors, child neglect could make a negative role on children’s peer acceptance.

Key words: child neglect, peer acceptance, negative behavior

摘要: 运用问卷调查法和同伴提名法,考察小学4、5年级共503名儿童的消极社会行为(攻击行为、退缩行为、受欺负行为)、同伴接受和儿童忽视间的关系。结果发现,儿童忽视与退缩行为、受欺负行为之间存在显著正相关,与攻击行为之间相关不显著;儿童忽视与同伴接受有显著负相关。忽视通过消极社会行为的两组中介变量作用于儿童的同伴接受。

关键词: 儿童忽视, 同伴接受, 消极行为

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