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Experimental Paradigm for Measuring the Effects of Self-distancing in Young Children
Published on: March 1, 2019
[Relationship of left-behind children's mental health, coping style, personality and self-efficacy]
Objective:
To explore the relationship of left-behind children's mental health, coping style and personality, and analyze mediating effect of self-efficacy.
Methods:
A total of 585 left-behind children were evaluated by questionnaires of MHT, EPQ, WCSQ and GSES.
Result:
Left-behind children's lonely tendency detection rate (6.3%) was significantly higher than their counterparts (χ2 = 4.225, P < 0.05). The subscales of MHT were positively related with remorse, fantasy, retreat (P < 0.01), but were negatively related with solve the problem, rationalization, self-efficacy. The analysis showed that self-efficacy had mediating effect affection. The structural modeling fitted the data well (χ2/df = 6.840, GFI = 0.972, AGFI = 0.918, NFI = 0.923, CFI = 0.962, RMSEA = 0.044).
Conclusion:
Personality has direct effect on the prediction of left-behind children's mental health. Self-efficacy has mediating effect affection on MHT and personality.
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