Relationship of left-behind children's mental health, coping style, personality and self-efficacy
Xu, H.; Mu, L.; Xie, X.
Wei Sheng Yan Jiu 44(4): 559-564; 569
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 1000-8020 PMID: 26454951 Document Number: 683373
To explore the relationship of left-behind children's mental health, coping style and personality, and analyze mediating effect of self-efficacy. A total of 585 left-behind children were evaluated by questionnaires of MHT, EPQ, WCSQ and GSES. Left-behind children's lonely tendency detection rate (6.3%) was significantly higher than their counterparts (χ2 = 4.225, P < 0.05). The subscales of MHT were positively related with remorse, fantasy, retreat (P < 0.01), but were negatively related with solve the problem, rationalization, self-efficacy. The analysis showed that self-efficacy had mediating effect affection. The structural modeling fitted the data well (χ2/df = 6.840, GFI = 0.972, AGFI = 0.918, NFI = 0.923, CFI = 0.962, RMSEA = 0.044). Personality has direct effect on the prediction of left-behind children's mental health. Self-efficacy has mediating effect affection on MHT and personality.