Graham Elspeth, Jordan Lucy P
J Marriage Fam. 2011 Aug;73(4):763-787. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00844.x.
Several million children currently live in transnational families, yet little is known about impacts on their health. We investigated the psychological well-being of left-behind children in four Southeast Asian countries. Data were drawn from the CHAMPSEA study. Caregiver reports from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) were used to examine differences among children under age 12 by the migration status of their household (N = 3,876). We found no general pattern across the four study countries: Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Multivariate models showed that children of migrant fathers in Indonesia and Thailand are more likely to have poor psychological well-being, compared to children in nonmigrant households. This finding was not replicated for the Philippines or Vietnam. The paper concludes by arguing for more contextualized understandings.
目前有数百万儿童生活在跨国家庭中，但对于这对他们健康的影响却知之甚少。我们调查了四个东南亚国家留守儿童的心理健康状况。数据来自CHAMPSEA研究。使用优势与困难问卷（SDQ）中照顾者的报告，根据家庭的移民状况对12岁以下儿童（N = 3876）的差异进行了研究。我们在印度尼西亚、菲律宾、泰国和越南这四个研究国家中未发现普遍规律。多变量模型显示，与非移民家庭的儿童相比，印度尼西亚和泰国移民父亲的孩子心理健康状况较差的可能性更大。菲律宾和越南未出现这一结果。本文最后主张进行更具情境化的理解。
