Is family an internal or external cause that affects mental health?

Family is an external factor affecting mental health and belongs to one of the objective factors.

Because people's mental health is an extremely complex dynamic process with relatively independent nature, the factors that restrict mental health and cause psychological deviation, psychological disorder or mental illness are also extremely complex and diverse.

Judging from the nature of various restrictive factors, there are mainly biological genetic factors, psychological environmental factors and social environmental factors. Judging from the functions of various restrictive factors, they can be divided into two categories: ontological factors and induced factors.

Ontology is the internal cause of a person's mental health change, and inducement is the external cause of the change. Inducing factors act through ontological factors, which determine the reality of people's mental health changes.

For example, for students with good psychological function, intense study life will stimulate higher learning enthusiasm and invest more learning energy; For students with poor psychological function, it may cause excessive anxiety and lead to psychological obstacles. The following briefly expounds the influence of ontological factors and inducing factors on mental health.

Family factors have a great influence on the physical and mental health of primary and secondary school students. A large number of studies at home and abroad show that bad family environment factors can easily cause abnormal psychological behavior of family members.

These factors mainly include: changes in major family members, such as parents' death, parents' divorce or separation, and parents' remarriage. Family relations are tense, such as parents, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, disharmony between brothers and sisters, indifferent family emotional atmosphere, frequent contradictions and so on.

Improper family education methods, such as autocracy, coercion, or connivance, laissez-faire, etc. There are family changes, accidents and so on.