The Influence of Family Factors on Mental Health

Family is the cell of society and the starting point of everyone's growth, which has a great and far-reaching impact on people's mental health. Research shows that family economic problems, such as lack of property and low wage income, are related to some common psychological obstacles, such as depression and anxiety. A complete and happy family plays a good role in maintaining people's mental health. Incomplete family is often an important factor that causes the mental health of family members. Marriage is one of the most important intimate relationships and the foundation of family. Studies at home and abroad show that the mental health status of married groups is better than that of unmarried groups.

First, family background affects personal parent-child relationship.

Parent-child relationship is an important part of family relationship and the earliest social relationship for individuals. On the one hand, the parenting style of parents will affect the quality of parent-child relationship. Different parenting styles will lead to different communication styles and conflict frequencies between parents and individuals. The more conflicts, the more negative parent-child relationship will develop, and the negative parent-child relationship will in turn lead to more parent-child conflicts, thus affecting the individual's mental health development. On the other hand, the relationship between parents will also affect the parent-child relationship. A family with a good and harmonious father relationship will have relatively good emotional stability and social adaptability. However, individuals who grow up under the bad relationship of their parents for a long time tend to have more anxiety and panic, and individuals in long-term cold war families will also show indifference and alienation. The parent-child relationship of such families will bring psychological insecurity to children, and even various adaptation obstacles and problem behaviors will appear.

Second, family background affects the accumulation of individual emotional experience.

Individual marriage, emotional pattern and intimate relationship often come from the psychological experience of interacting with parents in childhood. There is a saying that the way your parents love you will become the "love appearance" when you grow up. This appearance includes your own emotional expression, your explicit personality, the way you pursue love, and your attitude towards feelings. Parents are the initial source of individual emotion and intimate relationship learning, and the mode of getting along with parents will directly affect the individual's psychological growth. If parents kidnap love in the name of love, the expression of love is incorrect, and there can be no boundaries, it will become the shackles of love, so individuals will be easily bound in the process of learning, and there is insufficient room for emotional development.