Psychological Development and Education ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (6): 859-868.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2025.06.10

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Effect of the Development of Parental Care on the Development of General Well-being In Grade 4~6 Left-behind Rural Children: The Moderating Role of Positively Interpreting Life

FAN Xinghua1,2,3, YAN Lifei1, JIN Jianing1, LI Xiaotong1, DENG Huixi1, YU Si1   

  1. 1. School of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081;
    2. Cognition and Human Behavior Key Laboratory of Hunan Province, Changsha 410081;
    3. Research Center for Mental Health Education of Hunan Province, Changsha 410081
  • Published:2025-11-05

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Abstract: A total of 908 children in grade 4 from 7 rural primary schools in Hunan Province were investigated by questionnaire for 3 times over 2 years. Among them, 338 children who had been left behind from T1 to T3 were selected to be analyzed, while 180 children kept non-left-behind were taken as the control group. Our study investigated the influence of parental care development on the general well-being (GWB) development of children in grades 4~6 and the moderating effect of the development of positively interpreting life from the dynamic perspective. The results showed that: (1) The slope of parental care of left-behind children (LBC) showed a marginally significant trend of decline, and the slope of GWB and positively interpreting life exhibited a stable development, but the individual differences among the three variables were significant; different from LBC, the initial level of parental care and GWB of NLBC was higher, and the development speed of GWB showed a significant downward trend; (2) The initial level / development speed of parental care positively predicted the initial level / development speed of LBC’s GWB respectively, and the predictive effect of the initial level of parental care was smaller than that of NLBC; (3) The development speed of positively interpreting life only had a positive moderating effect on the path of “development speed of parental care → development speed of GWB” among LBC. It can be seen that the development of parental care is an important source of the development of GWB for LBC from grade 4 to 6, and positively interpreting life has an enhancing effect on the above dynamic process.

Key words: left-behind children, parental care, general well-being, positively interpreting life, latent growth modeling

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