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Risk, Protective Factors, and Resilience of Left-Behind Children in Rural China.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Risk, Protective Factors, and Resilience of Left-Behind Children in Rural China./
作者:	Zhang, Xiaoqing.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (186 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-03, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-03B.
標題:	Health sciences. -
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ISBN:	9798662598058

Risk, Protective Factors, and Resilience of Left-Behind Children in Rural China.
Zhang, Xiaoqing.

Risk, Protective Factors, and Resilience of Left-Behind Children in Rural China. - 1 online resource (186 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-03, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references

In China, 61 million children have been left behind in rural areas as a result of massive urbanization and migration of parents from the countryside seeking economic opportunities in the cities. These children are under the supervision of their grandparents, relatives, elder siblings, or, in some cases, self-supervised. Research and anecdotal documentation have consistently reported negative mental health sequelae faced by these children, including depression, anxiety, negative self-perception, and loneliness (e.g., Fan, Su, Gill, & Birmaher, 2010; Gao et al., 2010; Guo et al.,2012; Wen & Lin, 2012; Sun et al., 2015). The sheer magnitude of this phenomenon in China and the mental health burden borne by those children have made it a social problem and a public health issue that demands further research. Given the magnitude of this challenge to Chinese society (both by its number and its social ramifications), there is a need to develop policies and intervention programs to prevent and improve the mental health outcomes of left-behind children (LBC).Available research mostly focuses on the risk factors that may increase the likelihood of LBC exhibiting mental health problems; some of it also shows negative impacts of risk factors on the mental health of these children. More recently, researchers have started to explore protective factors that can lower the probability of undesirable mental health outcomes and discuss resilience in LBC. However, existing research essentially considers LBC's resilience as a trait that cannot be improved by intervention programs. The current study conceptualizes resilience in LBC as a dynamic process of adaptive functioning when encountering adversity and an interactive process between risk and protective factors, and measures resilience with an outcome of the absence of depressive symptoms. Accordingly, the study hypothesizes that resilience is improved by understanding the mechanism of the interplay between risk and protective factors and by promoting the protective factors that target specific risk factors. Using survey data collected from 1,572 middle school students in Henan Province of China, a set of logistic regressions were performed to examine the risk and protective factors on LBC's depressive symptoms. Results suggest that peer victimization, perceived discrimination, and stressful life events are significant risk factors; on the other hand, positive beliefs about adversity, hope, parent-child cohesion, and perceived social support are significant protective factors. Stressful life events were found to have a higher impact on LBC than non-left-behind children (NLBC). Further analysis was performed to examine the interaction effects of risk factors and protective factors on LBC's depressive symptoms. The findings show that positive beliefs about adversity, hope, and perceived social support mitigate the negative impact of stressful life events on LBC's depressive symptoms: in the presence of the protective factors, LBC facing stressful life events become resilient, as demonstrated by their outcome of no depressive symptoms.These research findings add to the knowledge of factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of resilience to improve the health and well-being of LBC. They suggest that future interventions should consider the protective effects of the parent-child cohesion on LBC's depressive symptoms, and the impacts of protective factors (i.e., positive beliefs about adversity, hope, and perceived social support) on LBC's resilience when they face stressful life events.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798662598058Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168359
Health sciences.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Depressive symptomsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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