Fan Zhiyu, Fan Xinghua
School of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Jan 26;11:604397. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.604397. eCollection 2020.
There are tens of millions of children left behind by one or both rural-to-urban migrant parents (left-behind children, LBC) in rural China. Compared to non-left-behind children (NLBC), LBC are disadvantaged in psychological adjustment. Research has shown social support can help LBC grow up healthily, but the plausible mechanisms linking support to adjustment remain unclear. The present study investigated the mediating role of basic psychological need satisfaction (BPNS) in the above relationship, as well as whether the predictive pathways of support on adjustment and BPNS were moderated by resilience in a sample of 692 LBC and 264 NLBC. Structural equation modeling indicated social support positively predicted LBC's psychological adjustment, which was completely mediated by BPNS. In addition, the mediating effect was weaker for LBC with higher levels of resilience, which indicated resilience was a necessary asset for LBC's growth amid the adversity of low social support.
在中国农村，有数以千万计的儿童被父母一方或双方留在农村，成为留守儿童。与非留守儿童相比，留守儿童在心理调适方面处于劣势。研究表明，社会支持有助于留守儿童健康成长，但支持与调适之间的合理机制仍不明确。本研究在692名留守儿童和264名非留守儿童样本中，考察了基本心理需求满足（BPNS）在上述关系中的中介作用，以及支持对调适和BPNS的预测路径是否受到心理韧性的调节。结构方程模型表明，社会支持对留守儿童的心理调适有正向预测作用，且完全由BPNS中介。此外，心理韧性水平较高的留守儿童的中介效应较弱，这表明心理韧性是留守儿童在社会支持不足的逆境中成长的必要资产。
