The impact of students with left-behind experiences on childhood: The relationship between negative life events and depression among college students in China

Li Han, Sheng-yu Zhao, Xuan-ying Pan and Chuan-Jing Liao

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2018, vol. 64, issue 1, 56-62

Abstract: Background: The number of left-behind children in rural China has increased dramatically over the last decade. It is reported that about 21.88% of child population with an estimated number of 61 million are left-behind children whose parents leave them to work in cities. We conducted a cross-sectional study to explore the impacts of left-behind experience (LBE) on college students’ depression and other influencing factors. Aim: This study discusses the mediation effect of self-esteem together with psychological resilience on college students with depression and negative life events of left-behind. The study also discusses the regulation effect of LBE. Methods: A total of 788 college students were selected from three universities in Sichuan and Chongqing (367 with LBEs, 421 without LBEs). Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List (ASLEC), Self-Esteem Scale (SES), Resilience Scale of Chinese Adolescent (RSCA) and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) were used to measure the negative life events, self-esteem, psychological resilience and depression, respectively. Bootstrap program was used to test the mediation effect, and multiple-group analysis was used to examine the regulation effect for LBE. Results: Scores of ASLEC for the college students with LBEs were higher than those without LBEs (8.59 ± 3.57) vs (7.06 ± 3.38), p  

Keywords: Left-behind experience; negative life events; self-esteem; psychological resilience; depression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764017739332

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