Influences of Parent-Child Relationships on Discipline Violations Behaviors among First-year High School Music Students – A Case Study

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the influences of parent-child relationships on discipline violation behaviors of the first-year high school music class. The research methodology was a survey, using Hideaki Takagi-Ninomi Fujita’s questionnaire as a tool to collect data from 393 first-year music class students at a high school in Zhuzhou. SPSS version 24.0 was utilized for data entry and collation. Descriptive statistics were employed to analyze the status quo of parent-child relationships and discipline violation behaviors. Correlation and regression analyses were applied to investigate the relationships among all perspectives of a parent-child relationships and discipline violation behaviors of the students .  The findings of this study suggested that   parents’ philosophy of life, mentality and gratitude to parents were significantly and positively correlated with the discipline violation behaviors of the students. The spiritual support from parents and role models in life were weakly correlated with the students’ discipline violation behaviors. The children’s spiritual independence away from parents was minimally correlated with discipline violation behaviors of the students. Whereas a negative correlation existed between the spiritual repression from parents and the discipline violation behaviors. This study to some extent revealed the influence path of parent-child relationships and discipline violation behaviors of high school first-year music class students.