title: Child Psychological Maltreatment and Its Correlated Factors in Chinese Families.
abstract: The present study aimed to explore the prevalence and frequency of child psychological maltreatment and its correlated factors in Chinese families. A cross-sectional investigation was conducted among 1,002 parents of primary school students in Yuncheng City, China. Data were collected using the self-report questionnaire anonymously. Results showed that 696 (69.5%) surveyed parents had different extents of psychological maltreatment toward their children in the past 3 months. The high prevalence of parental psychology maltreatment was significantly associated with high scores on parental over-reactivity and low scores on recognition of child psychology maltreatment. These findings indicate that it is urgent to develop cultural interventions to raise parents' awareness of preventing child psychological maltreatment and to help parents use nonviolent child rearing in China.
authors.affiliation: a Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences , Beijing , China.|b Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health , Peking University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Wenjing
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: b Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health , Peking University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Yating
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: b Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health , Peking University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Jingqi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002681:China; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D015995:Prevalence; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Child psychological maltreatment; China; parents; primary school students