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Parent–Child Cohesion, Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction, and Emotional Adaptation in Left-Behind Children in China: An Indirect Effects Model

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Title
Parent–Child Cohesion, Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction, and Emotional Adaptation in Left-Behind Children in China: An Indirect Effects Model
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Frontiers in Psychology, June 2018
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01023
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Jingjin Shao, Lei Zhang, Yining Ren, Luxia Xiao, Qinghua Zhang

Abstract

This study aimed to validate an indirect effects model of parent-child cohesion in emotional adaptation (i.e., loneliness and depression) via basic psychological needs satisfaction in Chinese left-behind children as well as the applicability of the model to both genders. A cross-sectional study was conducted and included 1,250 children aged between 9 and 12 years (635 left-behind children and 615 non-left-behind children) from rural primary schools. The results showed that: (1) relative to non-left-behind children, left-behind children exhibited significantly higher loneliness and depression scores and greater disadvantages involving father-child cohesion, mother-child cohesion, and psychological needs satisfaction. (2) Father- and mother-child cohesion were significantly negatively correlated with loneliness and depression and significantly positively correlated with psychological needs satisfaction in left-behind children. (3) Through structural equation modeling showed that psychological needs satisfaction partially mediated the relationship between parent-child cohesion and emotional outcomes in left-behind children. (4) Through multi-group analyses showed significant gender differences in structural weighting between parent-child cohesion and emotional adaptation, in that parent-child cohesion in left-behind boys was a stronger negative predictor of unfavorable emotional outcomes relative to that observed in left-behind girls, while psychological needs satisfaction in left-behind girls was a stronger negative predictor of unfavorable emotional outcomes relative to that observed in left-behind boys. The implications of these findings for interventions directed at Chinese left-behind children were discussed.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 4%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 26 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 24 34%
Social Sciences 5 7%
Philosophy 4 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 4%
Neuroscience 2 3%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 26 37%
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