PMID- 30443917
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191218
LR  - 20191218
IS  - 1365-2214 (Electronic)
IS  - 0305-1862 (Linking)
VI  - 45
IP  - 1
DP  - 2019 Jan
TI  - Subjective well-being among left-behind children in rural China: The role of 
      ecological assets and individual strength.
PG  - 63-70
LID - 10.1111/cch.12630 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: The plight of left-behind children affected by parental migration has 
      aroused widespread public concern in China. However, limited research has been 
      conducted on the positive aspects of the development (e.g., subjective 
      well-being) among left-behind children. Recently, a new means to investigating 
      the mechanisms of positive development in left-behind children emerged from the 
      positive youth development (PYD) approach. Grounded in the framework of PYD, this 
      study was designed to examine how ecological assets (i.e., neighbourhood social 
      cohesion and trusting relationships with caregivers) and individual strength 
      (i.e., resilience) predict subjective well-being among left-behind children. 
      METHODS: Altogether, 1,449 left-behind children (50.70% boys; M(age) 
       = 12.11 years, SD = 1.84) were recruited to complete questionnaires designed to 
      assess perceived neighbourhood social cohesion, trusting relationships with 
      caregivers, resilience, and subjective well-being. RESULTS: The results show that 
      neighbourhood social cohesion and trusting relationships with caregivers 
      positively predicted left-behind children's subjective well-being. Moreover, 
      structural equation modelling results reveal that resilience partially mediated 
      the effect of neighbourhood social cohesion and trusting relationships with 
      caregivers on subjective well-being. CONCLUSIONS: In this research, we identified 
      key contextual and personal enablers for subjective well-being among left-behind 
      children. The results provide some important implications regarding the manner in 
      which subjective well-being can be promoted among left-behind children by 
      increasing neighbourhood and family ecological assets and enhancing resilience.
CI  - (c) 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
FAU - Chai, Xiaoyun
AU  - Chai X
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9590-3696
AD  - Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
FAU - Li, Xiaoyan
AU  - Li X
AD  - Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
FAU - Ye, Zhi
AU  - Ye Z
AD  - Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
FAU - Li, Yuxuan
AU  - Li Y
AD  - Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
FAU - Lin, Danhua
AU  - Lin D
AD  - Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Child Care Health Dev
JT  - Child: care, health and development
JID - 7602632
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Affective Symptoms/epidemiology/*psychology
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Abandoned/*psychology/statistics & numerical data
MH  - China/epidemiology
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Educational Status
MH  - Female
MH  - Grounded Theory
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Health
MH  - Parent-Child Relations
MH  - Parents/psychology
MH  - Psychology, Adolescent
MH  - Psychology, Child
MH  - *Residence Characteristics
MH  - *Resilience, Psychological
MH  - Rural Population
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Transients and Migrants/*psychology/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Trust/*psychology
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - left-behind children
OT  - neighbourhood social cohesion
OT  - resilience
OT  - subjective well-being
OT  - trusting relationship
EDAT- 2018/11/18 06:00
MHDA- 2019/12/19 06:00
CRDT- 2018/11/17 06:00
PHST- 2018/04/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/10/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/11/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/11/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/12/19 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/11/17 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/cch.12630 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Child Care Health Dev. 2019 Jan;45(1):63-70. doi: 10.1111/cch.12630.