Can psychological factors also affect the growth of height? In recent years, 1.1 million couples have divorced each year, with an average annual increase of 4.4% from 1991 to 1999. Some children are entangled in various conflicts due to domestic violence, abuse, drinking, smoking, taking drugs, “two families”, separation, second career, threat of unemployment, high expectations, unfair distribution, extra-marital relationships, overcrowded living, lack of necessary health knowledge, impulse of values, as well as verbal abuse, ridicule, mockery, discrimination, etc. “psychological violence”, so that the child feels the pain of the impulse, thus reducing the secretion of growth hormones in their bodies, and their height is shorter than that of children who receive multiple care in a harmonious environment. Foreign scholars refer to children who stop developing due to the lack of affection and care and become short in stature as “social-psychological-dwarf syndrome”, which is also called “psychosocial dwarf”. It is also called “psychosocial dwarfism”. Does lack of maternal love affect a child’s height? It has long been known that there are individual differences in height for each person, mostly related to genetics, nutrition, endocrine and other factors. However, some studies have found that emotional disorders can also affect height. If a child grows up in an environment that lacks family warmth and adequate maternal love, his height is often shorter than that of children of the same age. This type of short stature is known abroad as emotional overshadowing short stature disorder, and some sources call it “emotional overshadowing syndrome”. Why does the lack of maternal love affect the height of children? Emotional overshadowing short stature syndrome occurs mainly because the hypothalamus and pituitary system are inhibited by emotions, which in turn causes a decrease in the secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland. In addition to shorter height, such children also have abnormal behaviors such as delayed intellectual development, excessive drinking, excessive eating, soliloquy, hyperactivity, and incompatibility in interpersonal relationships. Emotionally masked children generally sleep unsteadily, lack a sense of security, and sometimes wake up screaming and crying in their dreams, etc. These conditions can affect the quality of sleep. And children’s growth hormone, hormone, is only secreted during the deep sleep and ripe sleep periods. Therefore, children who have restless sleep and wake up easily are likely to have their secretion of this growth hormone greatly inhibited, which is one of the important reasons why children do not grow taller. Foreign studies have also found that once these children are relieved of negative psychological factors, a significant proportion of them can rapidly grow catch-up, and their height can reach the level of normal children. Can family discord also affect growth? According to a recently published study in the UK, children who live with parents who fight a lot or who come from broken homes are more likely to be shorter. To assess the adverse effects of family conflict, researchers followed up children with health problems and found that those who came from difficult families caused by family tension, divorced parents, single parents or parental abandonment accounted for 4.5 percent of the total number of children surveyed. After analysis, the researchers found that 31.7 percent of children who experienced family conflict were short in stature, compared to 20.2 percent of children who did not experience this. Together with other factors known to influence growth, such as social class, family size and gender differences, the corresponding percentage of differences was only slightly lower. Does stress and anxiety affect girls’ stature growth? New York State Psychological Institute child psychologist Daniel? Pace recently reported that girls who live with stress and anxiety all day are shorter than girls with happy and stable emotions. The report was made after a 9-year follow-up study of 716 children aged 9 to 18. Girls who felt tense were 5.08 cm shorter than those who felt happy, and were two times less likely to grow to a height of 1.57 meters or more. Psychologists speculate that emotions may inhibit the normal production of growth hormone, which governs height. The study also found that stress did not appear to cause short stature in boys. This may be related to the different physiological responses of male and female children to stress. However, further research is needed to confirm whether this is the exact mechanism. What kind of stress and anxiety may affect height growth? One type of stress is “separation stress,” which means that some girls panic about being separated from their parents, such as not wanting to go to school and not sleeping in separate rooms from their parents. The other is “chronic tension and anxiety disorder,” which is characterized by a timid temperament, lack of self-confidence, fear that other children do not like her, and fear that they are not as good as other children. At least 5 percent of girls in the United States are affected by this height-impairing anxiety. Parents should seek medical help when they notice a child’s tendency to be nervous and anxious. Parents should be concerned about the things that girls over the age of 7 worry about: parental relationships, family finances, their own appearance, their speech, their height, etc.