The Relationship between Mother-Child Interaction, Mother's Anxiety and Depression with Aggressiveness of Elementary School Boy Students in District 1 of Rasht City
Subject Areas : Journal of Educational PsychologyElham Abedinzadeh 1 , Mohsen Moshkbid Haghighi 2
1 - M.A. Department of Psychology, Simaye Danesh Institute of Higher Education, Rasht, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
Keywords: Mother-Child Interaction, Anxiety, Depression, Aggression, Students,
Abstract :
This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between mother-child interaction, mother's anxiety and depression with aggression of students. The type of descriptive research and its method was correlational. The statistical population included all the male students of the 6th grade of elementary education schools in the 1st district of Rasht in the academic year of 2023-2024 along with their mothers (870), of which a sample of 205 students and 205 mothers was selected by sampling method. Clusters were randomly selected. Aggression questionnaires by Eyseng and Glenn Wilson (1975), assessment of mother-child relationship by Russ (1980) and hospital anxiety and depression by Sigmon and Snaith (1983) were used to collect the required data. Parametric statistical tests of Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. The findings showed that there is a relationship between mother-child interaction and aggression of male students (P<0.05 and r=0.16), between mother's anxiety and students' aggression (P<0.05 and r=0.24) and between mother's depression and Aggression of male students (P˂0.05 and r=0.19) has a significant relationship, and a total of 14.6 percent of the changes in male students' aggression is explained by the three mentioned variables. Based on the mentioned findings, it can be concluded that the improvement of mother-child interaction and the reduction of mother's anxiety and depression lead to the reduction of male children's aggression.
