Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 441-448.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.04.08

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Parental Cohesion, Beliefs about Adversity and Left-behind Children's Positive/Negative Emotion in Rural China

ZHAO Jingxin1, LUAN Feifei1, SUN Ping1, XU Tingting1, LIU Xia2   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014;
    2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2017-07-15 Published:2017-07-15

Abstract: A total of 340 left-behind children were recruited from a rural area in Shandong province, including 173 children from two-parent-migrant families and 167 children from father-migrant families. Using self-report scales of parental cohesion, beliefs about adversity, and positive/negative emotion, the present study examined the mediating role of beliefs about adversity in different left-behind status.Results indicated that:(1) The level of two-parent-migrant families children's beliefs about adversity was lower than father-migrant families children. (2) In two-parent-migrant families, father-child cohesion was positively associated with children's positive emotion, negatively associated with children's negative emotion, while mother-child cohesion was only predicated children's positive emotion; In father-migrant families, father-child cohesion was negatively correlated with children's negative emotion, mother-child cohesion was positively correlated with children's positive emotion. (3) The beliefs about adversity mediated the relationship between father/mother-child cohesion and children's positive emotion, but the mediation effect only existed in the two-parent-migrant families.

Key words: Rural left-behind children, parental cohesion, beliefs about adversity, positive/negative emotion

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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