Using data from the 2010 Survey on the Status of Chinese Women, this paper analyzes the overall situation, heterogeneity and determinants of psychological abuse of the older people in China.Psychological abuse is the most common and widespread form of abuses of the aged people with the
highest incidence(5. 1%)of all forms of abuses. There are large sociodemographic differentials in the elderly psychological abuse. Logistic regression model suggests that the older people who have multiple children, low income, poor health, cognitive bias and less assistance for their children experience significantly higher rates of psychological abuse. Psychological abuse of the older people in China is not only individual behaviour of social deviance, but also is closely related to the macro transformation of social culture. Effective measures should be actively pursued to prevent elderly psychological abuse.