Abstract: In order to investigate the basic characteristics of family violence in parent-child relations, and further explore the relationship between factors of family violence and dimensions of personality , a questionnaire survey was conducted among 340 primary school students using the child abuse scale and the five personality scale. The results show that: (1) The occurrence of family violence in parent-child relations is mainly mild, and it tends to be emotional neglect and physical neglect, followed by emotional abuse and physical abuse. (2) All the factors of family violence are positively related to “neuroticism” of personality; And there is significant negative correlation between “physical abuse” and “extroversion”, between “emotional neglect” and “extroversion”; Whats more, “emotional neglect” is significantly negatively correlated with “openness”; “physical abuse”, “emotional abuse” and “emotional neglect” are respectively negatively correlated with “preciseness”. (3) The score of family violence factor has a certain predictive effect on the personality dimension, among them, “emotional abuse” has a positive predictive effect on “neuroticism”; “physical neglect” has a negative predictive effect on “extroversion”; “emotional neglect” has a negative predictive effect on “openness”; “emotional abuse” has a negative predictive effect on “obedience”; “emotional neglect” and “emotional abuse” have a negative predictive effect together on “preciseness”.

Key words: primary school students; parent-child relationship; family violence; personality