Psychological determinants of parental aggression: opportunities for self-control Abstract

The Introduction of this work substantiates the relevance of the applied research, which determines a parental aggression in the context of intra-family relations. Theoretical aspects related to the parental aggression, as well as aggressive parental behavior models and their projections onto the child’s self-attitude and activity, are also described in the introductory part. The introduction also contains substantive characteristics of the regulatory and control means over the aggression manifestation in the field of childparent relations. Comparative analysis of the destructive and «biologically adapted» aggression in the field of child-parent relations is also presented in the introduction of this work. The Methods part presents a diagnostic toolkit used primarily to study parental aggression level and features of child-parent relations, as well as ways of self-regulation, reasons for aggressive behavior and its acceptability in a communication with a child. The Results part explores the role of emotional intelligence and parent’s psychological competence in the process of building productive and healthy relations between a parent and a child. This chapter also contains the description and interpretation of the empirical research conducted to evaluate different characteristics of parents, such as level of aggression and hostility, level of self-regulation and state of the emotional intelligence. The Discussion part includes the analysis of the factors determining parental aggressive behavior. These factors are categorized and used to create the psychological profile of an «aggressive parent». In the conclusion part of this work, the relation between aggression and self-regulation, as well as between aggression and emotional intelligence, which was found during the empirical research. The influence of increasing self-regulation and emotional intelligence at the ability of parent to control their behavior and emotions, as well as role of these factors in building healthy child-parent relations are also shown in this chapter. Based on the results of this work, we propose to develop a program for the prevention and psychological correction of parental aggression. The main idea of this program is to raise the level of emotional intelligence and the general level of self-regulation.

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