ArticleFrontiers in public health2022
To assess and compare the mental health of current-left-behind children, previous-left-behind children with never-left-behind children.
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- A two-hit ecological framework linking social context to caries-associated microbiome shifts in children.Journal of oral microbiology · 2026Article
- Gender differences in parent-child alienation and its relationship to depressive symptoms in left-behind children: a comparative analysis of undirected and directed networks.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Association of the previous experience of maternal migration absence with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in their school-aged children: a cross-sectional study in Anhui, China.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Associations between left-behind children's characteristics and psychological symptoms: a cross-sectional study from China.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Parental and Adolescents' Anxiety during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Rural China: The role of Parent-child Communication.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2024Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and deviant peer affiliation among Chinese delinquent adolescents: the role of relative deprivation and age.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Psychological impacts of maternal migration on left-behind children: a cross-cultural review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Mediating roles of perceived social support and sense of security in the relationship between negative life events and life satisfaction among left-behind children: A cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The study's goal was to compare the mental health of children who are now left-behind (current-LBC) to children who have never been left-behind (never-LBC). Recruits were culled from rural Chinese schools. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale (PACS) were used to examine participants' migratory status, mental health, and parent-child communication (PACS). A total of 2,000 current-, 500 previous-, and 300 never-LBCs in had complete data readily accessible for research and analysis. A number of mental health issues, such as emotional symptoms, conduct, and hyperactivity issues as well as overall challenges were considerably increased when all confounding factors were taken into account in the analysis. Our findings also showed a substantial link between children's overall issues and their inability to effectively communicate with parents. Children suffer long-term consequences as a result of their parents' frequent moves. The mental health of children is closely linked to the quality of communication between parents and children. Migrant parents' ability to comprehend and communicate with their children is critical to their children's development, according to the findings of this study.
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