Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 心理與諮商學系 === 107 === This study aimed to clarify the relations between parenting practices and externalizing problem behaviors, and whether adolescents’ personality traits moderate the association between them. This study utilized secondary research data. Participants were students from high school and junior high school in Taipei City and New Taipei City, and obtained 439 valid samples. SPSS 22.0 for windows was used to analyze the data. The applied analysis methods were descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, factor analysis, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis. According to the result, this study summarized the following conclusions:
1. The frequency of boys’ aggression, rule-breaking and externalizing problem behaviors were significantly higher than girls.
2. Adolescents of different grades have significant differences in aggression, rule-breaking and externalizing problem behaviors. The rule-breaking behaviors of students at twelfth grade were higher than the students at tenth grade, the aggression behaviors of students at ninth grade were higher than the students at tenth grade, the externalizing problem behaviors of students at twelfth grade and ninth grade were higher than the students at tenth grade.
3. Maternal and paternal positive support showed negative associations while poor monitoring and corporal punishment showed positive associations with aggression, rule-breaking and externalizing problem behaviors.
4. Adolescents’ conscientiousness showed negative associations, neuroticism and openness showed positive associations with aggression, rule-breaking and externalizing problem behaviors.
5. Adolescents’ neuroticism moderate relations between maternal poor monitoring, paternal poor monitoring, paternal corporal punishment and externalizing problem behaviors.
Based on the above research conclusions, the relevant suggestions were proposed for parents, schools’ supervisor and future research directions.
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