父亲缺失对儿童心理发展的影响

Effect of Father Absence on Child’s Mental Development

父亲对儿童心理发展的影响正日益受到研究者的重视。父亲缺失的研究使得研究者有可能对父亲缺失家庭儿童和完整家庭儿童的人格特点进行对比,进而推理父亲的作用。它已成为当前对父亲作用研究的重要的研究范式。文章阐述了当前对父亲缺失研究的主要观点,包括父亲缺失对儿童性别角色发展的作用,父亲缺失对儿童道德和犯罪行为的影响,父亲缺失对儿童人际交往能力、个体化发展等的影响。在文章最后对未来的研究提出了一些设想。

The father’s influence on child’s mental development was being concerned. The study of father absence makes it possible to compare personality of children between father absent families and father present ones, from which they can find the effect of father. So it became the most popular method in the study of father’s influence. This paper summarized the main research points on father absence at present, including the effect of father absence on children’s sex role development, the effect on children’s moral development and delinquent behavior, the effect on their interpersonal problem solving skills, the effect on child’s separation-individuation development, etc. In the end, we gave some advice for future researches.