The Effect of Parental Rearing Patterns on Sexual Mental Health among Medical College Students

To explore the current status of medical college students' sexual mental health and parental rearing patterns, and analyze the impact of parental rearing patterns on medical students' sexual mental health. Methods A total of 816 medical undergraduates in Guangdong Province were selected by stratified random sampling. They were investigated with Sexual Mental Health Questionnaire for Adolescent（SMHQA) and Egma Minnen av Bardndosnauppforstran (EMBU). Results First, the total score of SMHQA and the scores of sexual cognition, sexual values and sexual adaptation were (3.26± 0.28), (2.92 ± 0.38), (2.19 ± 0.31) and (4.50 ± 0.43) respectively. The scores of fathers' emotional warmth and understanding, mothers' emotional warmth and understanding, fathers' over protection, mothers' over intervention and over protection are all greater than 2.0 and less than 2.8; The scores of other dimensions of EMBU are less than 2.0. Second, except fathers' and mothers' excessive preference, all other dimensions of EMBU were significantly correlated with the total score of SMHQA and the scores of three dimensions (all p<0.01). Third, the results of multiple stepwise linear regression showed that fathers' and mothers' warmth and understanding were positively related with the total score of SMHQA (β=.277, .467; All P < 001), and the scores of four dimensions of fathers' severe punishment, fathers' excessive interference, fathers' refusal and denial and fathers' excessive protection were negatively related to the total score of SMHQA (β=-. 336～-. 644, all P < .05). Conclusion The sexual mental health of medical college students needs to be improved, and parental rearing patterns may be an important factor affecting the sexual mental health of medical college students.