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The Influence of Poverty on Children's Mental Health and Its Internal Mechanism

XU Fuming1,2, HUANG Long2,3   

  1. 1. Faculty of Education, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500;
    2. School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022;
    3. School of Humanities and Management, Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 341002
  • Published:2023-01-10

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Abstract: Child poverty is a major public health problem worldwide. In recent decades, domestic and international research have found that poverty has an impact on children's negative mental health and positive mental health. Researchers try to explain the impact of poverty on children's mental health from two aspects of family and society, so as to reveal the impact mechanism of poverty on children's mental health. Future research should strengthen the study of protective factors in the development of children's mental health, explore the long-term effects of childhood poverty on individual mental health and its causes, and carry out localization research in the context of China's social culture, which will contribute to prevention and intervention of childhood poverty in practice.

Key words: poverty, children, positive mental health, negative mental health, mechanism

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