| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 教育研究所 === 97 === The purpose of the study is to investigate the correlation of college student’s perceptions of marital conflict, emotional security, and parentification. Besides, the study examines if children’s perceived marital conflict and emotional security could predict parentification. The final purpose is to explore the mediation effect of emotional security between marital conflict and parentification.
The measure tools used in this study include “The Children Perceived Interparental Conflict Scale”, “The Security in the Interparental Subsystem Scale”, and “The Parentification Scale”. The questionnaires were administered to 484 college students in Taiwan. The results of survey were analyzed by Independent t test, Pearson’s correlation, and multiple regression analysis.
The results of the study are as follows: 1.The dimensions of marital conflict, emotional security, and parentification related to each other significantly. Only the correlations between the dimensions of marital conflict with involvement and instrumental caregiving are not significant. 2. Marital conflict and emotional security can predict parentification significantly. Especially, involvement can explain instrumental and expressive caregiving the most, destructive marital conflict and conflict spillover representations can explain unfairness the most. 3. There are some mediation effects of emotional security between marital conflict and parentification: (a) The destructive family representations fully mediated the relationship between frequency of marital conflict and expressive caregiving. (b) The constructive family representations fully mediated the relationship between constructive marital conflict and expressive caregiving. (c) The conflict spillover representations partially mediated the relationship between destructive marital conflict and unfairness, and the same relationship between frequency of marital conflict and unfairness. Finally, the advanced discussions and further suggestions are addressed based on the result of this study.
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