Psychological Development and Education ›› 2011, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (5): 484-490.

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Left-home children’s Belief in A Just World:Its Characteristic and Relationship with Well-being with different duration of left time

ZHANG Li, SHEN Ji-liang, WONG Swee-meng, LUO Man-nan   

  1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2011-09-15 Published:2011-09-15

Abstract: 565 left-home children and 640 non left-home children from grade 5 to 8 finished belief in a just world scale,life satisfaction scale,positive-negative affect scale for exploring left-home children's characteristics of belief in a just world and its relationship with well-being.Results showed that:(1)there was a marginally significant difference on children's belief in just world among groups with different left-home duration.(2)The level of belief in a just world of left-home children was significantly lower than that of non left-home children.Further analysis indicated that the level of belief in just world of left-home children with duration of left time shorter than 10 years were significantly lower than that of non left-home children,while there was no difference between left-home children with other duration time and non left-home children.(3)Belief in a just world had significant positive effect on life-satisfaction and positive affect within all duration of left time and had significant effect on negative affect at given left time.In conclusion,left time was an important factor to belief in a just world and its role of mental health.

Key words: left-home children, belief in a just world, left time, well-being

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  • B844.1
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