Left‐behind children in rural C hina experience higher levels of anxiety and poorer living conditions

Xue Yan Zhao · Ming‐Chun Chen · Yuhong Jiang · Ye‐Huan Sun

142 citations0/0 files storedActa Paediatrica

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Child Welfare and Adoption Child Abuse and Trauma

Abstract

AIM: The number of rural Chinese parents who leave their children with family members to work in the cities has increased dramatically over the last decade. This study compared the social anxiety of left-behind children (LBC) and children not left behind (non-LBC). METHODS: We investigated 1694 LBC and 1223 non-LBC, aged seven to 17 years, in a Chinese province using a structured questionnaire that included questions about socio-demographic characteristics, social anxiety, family function, quality of life, neglect and physical abuse. RESULTS: LBC displayed higher social anxiety scores, more neglect, lower parental educational level, lower quality of life, lower family function and lower prevalence of physical abuse than non-LBC. Multiple linear regression models showed that higher Social Anxiety Scales for Children (SASC) scores in LBC were clearly associated with lower quality of life, poorer family function, physical abuse, being female, having more siblings and minorities. In non-LBC, they were associated with lower quality of life, poorer family function, neglect, being female and physical abuse. CONCLUSION: LBC have a relatively higher level of social anxiety and poorer living conditions than non-LBC, and there are differences in social anxiety, and its relevant factors, between the two groups.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 142 citations exist upstream.

References

1998Identification of Child Maltreatment With the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales: Development and Psychometric Data for a National Sample of American Parents 1982Validity and reliability of the family APGAR as a test of family function.1999Psychopathology of Childhood Social Phobia 2000Behavioral treatment of childhood social phobia.1988Development of the Social Anxiety Scale for Children: Reliability and Concurrent Validity 2007Social anxiety disorder above and below the diagnostic threshold: prevalence, comorbidity and impairment in the general population 1992Social Anxiety and Peer Relationships in Early Adolescence: A Prospective Analysis 1990Social phobia: Relationship to shyness

Cited by

2016Does the gender of parent or child matter in child maltreatment in China?2018Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect and Childhood Behavior Problems: A Meta-Analysis of Studies in Mainland China 2017Long-term impacts of parental migration on Chinese children’s psychosocial well-being: mitigating and exacerbating factors 2015A prospective study of psychological resilience and depression among left-behind children in China

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.