Li Ting, Huang Yuhuai, Jiang Meiru, Ma Shutao, Ma Yankun
School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
Nansha Tianyuan Campus of Guangzhou High School, Guangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 18;13:1082516. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1082516. eCollection 2022.
Adolescents are in a period when a marked upward trend of adolescents relational aggression. Even though previous studies have found that childhood psychological abuse experience is an important factor influencing adolescent relational aggression, it is unclear when and under what circumstances childhood psychological abuse impacts adolescent relational aggression. This study constructed a moderated chain mediation model to investigate the influence of childhood psychological abuse on relational aggression among Chinese adolescents and its internal mechanism.
Data from 1868 (923 male and 945 female, M = 14.31, SD = 1.60) Chinese adolescents in two full-time middle schools in Guangzhou were collected via a cross-sectional survey in 2020. Adolescents reported on childhood psychological abuse, relational aggression, rejection sensitivity relational victimization and cognitive reappraisal.
The results demonstrated that: (1) childhood psychological abuse was significantly positively related to relational aggression; (2) childhood psychological abuse was significantly linked with adolescents' relational aggression through the separate mediating effects of rejection sensitivity and relational victimization, as well as through the chain mediating effects of rejection sensitivity and relational victimization; (3) the chain mediated effect of childhood psychological abuse on relational aggression through rejection sensitivity and relational victimization was moderated by cognitive reappraisal.
These findings indicate that childhood psychological abuse, as a kind of poor parenting style, has influence on adolescents' internal personality (rejection sensitivity) and external behavior development (relational victimization and relational aggression). This study is helpful to demonstrate the protective effect of cognitive reappraisal and reveal the internal mechanism of childhood psychological abuse on relational aggression.
青少年正处于关系攻击行为显著上升的时期。尽管先前的研究发现童年期心理虐待经历是影响青少年关系攻击行为的一个重要因素，但尚不清楚童年期心理虐待在何时以及何种情况下会影响青少年的关系攻击行为。本研究构建了一个有调节的链式中介模型，以探讨童年期心理虐待对中国青少年关系攻击行为的影响及其内在机制。
2020年通过横断面调查收集了来自广州两所全日制中学的1868名中国青少年（923名男性和945名女性，M = 14.31，SD = 1.60）的数据。青少年报告了童年期心理虐待、关系攻击行为、拒绝敏感性、关系型受害经历和认知重评情况。
结果表明：（1）童年期心理虐待与关系攻击行为显著正相关；（2）童年期心理虐待通过拒绝敏感性和关系型受害经历的单独中介效应以及通过拒绝敏感性和关系型受害经历的链式中介效应与青少年的关系攻击行为显著相关；（3）童年期心理虐待通过拒绝敏感性和关系型受害经历对关系攻击行为的链式中介效应受到认知重评的调节。
这些研究结果表明，童年期心理虐待作为一种不良的养育方式，会影响青少年的内在人格（拒绝敏感性）和外在行为发展（关系型受害经历和关系攻击行为）。本研究有助于证明认知重评的保护作用，并揭示童年期心理虐待对关系攻击行为的内在机制。
