%0 Journal Article
%T The impact of students with left
%A Chuan-Jing Liao
%A Li Han
%A Sheng-yu Zhao
%A Xuan-ying Pan
%J International Journal of Social Psychiatry
%@ 1741-2854
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0020764017739332
%X 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. 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. 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. Scores of ASLEC for the college students with LBEs were higher than those without LBEs (8.59£¿¡À£¿3.57) vs (7.06£¿¡À£¿3.38), p£¿<£¿.001). The scores of LBE, ASLEC and SDS were positively correlated with the college students with LBEs (r£¿=£¿.21 to .29, p£¿<£¿.01), while the scores of RSCA and SES were negatively correlated (r£¿=£¿£¿.30 to £¿.59, p£¿<£¿.01). The mediation effect of college students¡¯ self-esteem and psychological resilience between negative life events and depression was significant (mediating effect£¿=£¿.08, .13, .07; p£¿<£¿.01). Thus, the college students¡¯ self-esteem and psychological resilience on negative life events had strong mediation effect on depression. The test of Bootstrap showed that the mediation effect of self-esteem and psychological resilience was significant (95% confidence interval (CI)£¿=£¿[0.04¨C0.76]). The LBE had regulation effect on college students¡¯ self-esteem and psychological resilience. (The constraint model fitting degree of variation is ¦¤¦Ö2£¿=£¿2,120.68, ¦¤df£¿=£¿8, p£¿<£¿.001.) The self-esteem and psychological resilience of college students with LBEs can be used to mediate the relation between negative life events and depression, whereas those without LBEs cannot. Self-esteem and psychological resilience fully mediates college students¡¯ negative life events and depression, which is regulated by their previous LBEs
%K Left-behind experience
%K negative life events
%K self-esteem
%K psychological resilience
%K depression
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020764017739332