ArticleBiomedical and environmental sciences : BES2018
Subjective Well-being and Family Functioning among Adolescents Left Behind by Migrating Parents in Jiangxi Province, China.
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- Children's and Adolescents' Happiness and Family Functioning: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Vicious circle of family dysfunction and adolescent internet addiction: Do only child and non-only child exhibit differences?Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Effects of BPD tendencies and subjective well-being on NSSI in adolescents with PTSD.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Aggressive behaviors and associated factors in Chinese left-behind adolescents: a cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- Left-Behind Children's Subtypes of Antisocial Behavior: A Qualitative Study in China.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Perceived Family Function and Associated Predictors in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Cognitive emotion regulation for improved mental health: A chain mediation study of Chinese high school students.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- School problems among left-behind children of labor migrant parents: a study in Vietnam.Health psychology report · 2022Article
- The Influence of Left-Behind Experience on College Students' Mental Health: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Subjective well-being of left-behind children: a cross-sectional study in a rural area of eastern China.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2020Article
- Research on Relationships between Sexual Identity, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury among Rural High School Students in Less Developed Areas of China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- The relationship between family social capital, social media use and life satisfaction in adolescents.Health promotion perspectives · 2019Article
- The Status of Pro-social Tendency of Left-Behind Adolescents in China: How Family Function and Self-Esteem Affect Pro-social Tendencies.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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We sought to identify the differences between adolescents left behind in their home villages/towns (LBA) and non-left behind adolescents (NLB) on subjective well-being and family functioning due to parental migration in south China. We used a stratified cluster sampling method to recruit middle school students in a city experiencing population-emigration in Jiangxi Province in 2010. Participants included adolescents from families with: (1) one migrant parent, (2) both parents who migrated, or (3) non-left behind adolescents (i.e., no migrant parent). To determine predictors of subjective well-being, we used structural equation models. Adolescents left behind by both parents (LBB) were less likely to express life satisfaction (P = 0.038) in terms of their environments (P = 0.011) compared with NLB. A parent or parents who migrated predicts lower subjective well-being of adolescents (P = 0.051) and also lower academic performance. Being apart from their parents may affect family functioning negatively from an adolescent's viewpoint. Given the hundreds of millions of persons in China, many who are parents, migrating for work, there may be mental health challenges in some of the adolescents left behind.
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