Psychological Development and Education ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 584-591.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2022.04.15

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Childhood Trauma and Negative Emotions among College Students with Left-behind Experience: The Moderation of Resilience

ZHANG Chunyang1, XU Wei2   

  1. 1. Chongqing Vocational College of Transportation, Chongqing 402247;
    2. National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education(Beijing Normal University), Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2022-07-13

Abstract: To investigate the relationship between childhood trauma and negative emotions among college students with left-behind experience and verify the moderating role of resilience, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 391 college students with left-behind experience using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale at the base-line as well as the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale at the baseline and 3 months follow-up. The results showed that:(1) Compared with college students with left-behind experience who did not have childhood trauma, individuals who have childhood trauma had lower levels of resilience and higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress; (2) After controlling for gender, age, family status, only child or not, and prior levels of negative emotion, childhood trauma and psychological resilience can significantly predict negative emotions after 3 months; (3) Resilience moderated the relationship between childhood trauma and negative emotion. At low levels of resilience, childhood trauma significantly predicted negative emotions of college students with left-behind experience; at high levels of resilience, the prediction effect was no longer significant. These findings show that childhood trauma is a risk factor for negative emotions of college students with left-behind experience. Resilience is a protective factor for negative emotions of college students with left-behind experience and appears to have positive effects in that it decreases the impact of childhood trauma on negative emotions in college students with left-behind experience.

Key words: college students, left-behind experience, childhood trauma, negative emotion, resilience

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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