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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Behavioral Strengths and Difficulties and Their Associations with Academic Performance in Math among Rural Youth in China.

Wenjing Yu, Cody Abbey, Yiwei Qian, Huan Wang, Scott Rozelle, Manpreet K Singh

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Wenjing YuChina Academy for Rural Development, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Cody AbbeyStanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6055, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1281-5472
Yiwei QianResearch Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 610074, China.
Huan WangStanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6055, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3219-7226
Scott RozelleStanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6055, USA.
Manpreet K SinghStanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5101, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4373-3293
Hoover Institution · USSouthwestern University of Finance and Economics · CNStanford University · US

Funding

China Scholarship Council 202006320131
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Behavioral strengths and difficulties among children and adolescents may be significantly associated with their academic performance; however, the evidence on this issue for rural youth in developing contexts is limited. This study explored the prevalence and correlates of mental health from three specific dimensions-internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and prosocial behavior-measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), and the association of these dimensions with academic performance in math among a sample of 1500 students in rural China. Our findings indicated that students in rural China had worse behavioral difficulties and poorer prosocial skills when compared to most past studies conducted inside and outside of China. In addition, total difficulties and prosocial scores on the SDQ were significantly associated with student math test scores, as students whose externalizing, internalizing, and prosocial scores were in the abnormal range scored lower in math by 0.35 SD, 0.23 SD, and 0.33 SD, respectively. The results add to the growing body of empirical evidence related to the links between social environment, mental health, and academic performance in developing countries, highlighting the importance of students' mental health for their academic performance, and of understanding risk factors in the social environment among rural youth in developing countries.

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academic performancebehavioral problemdeveloping countriesmental healthrural China

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PMID36141254
PMCPMC9498325
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