This study investigated (1) the parent-child relationships perceived by students, (2) the relationships between the parent-child relationship and parent’s sex, schooling, religion, and (3) the relationships between the parent-child relationship and students’ sex, I.Q., academe achievement, and personality. The subjects were 287 middle school students, and instruments were standardized tests(parent-child relationship test, intelligence test, personality test) and academic achievement tests developed by the school teachers.
On the relationships between the parent-child relationship and parent’s sex, schooling, and religion, mothers were related more to faulty parent-child relationship than fathers, and lower levels of schooling, and religion of fathers were related to the rejection of children.
As regarding the relationships between the parent-child relationship and students’ sex, I.Q., academic achievement, and parsonality, (1) the perceptions of boys were related to rejection, demand, and interference of the parent, (2) high levels of I.Q., and academe achievement were related to demand and indulgence, and low levels of them were related to rejection and inconsistency of the parent, (3) and high levels of parent’s rejection and inconsistency were significantly related to anxiety, depression, and paranoic tendency of the students.
The present study’s findings have implications for school intervention designed to enhance parent-child relationship, to help students reduce anxiety, depression and paranoic tendency.