School of Social Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Oct 15;19(20):13327. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192013327.
Family functionality has been proven to be associated with adolescents' and children's mental health, but its indirect mechanisms among left-behind children have rarely been investigated in the Chinese context. This study aims to explore the direct effect of family functionality on psychological distress and the mediating roles of social support and Internet addiction among Chinese left-behind children. Based on multistage random sampling, 1355 students were recruited to participate in a school-based questionnaire survey in Jiangsu Province. Structural equation modeling using Amos 26.0 was used to test the direct and indirect paths of the variables. The results support our hypotheses, suggesting that family functionality has a direct effect on the psychological distress of left-behind children. Meanwhile, the association between family functionality and psychological distress is mediated by social support and Internet addiction, separately and sequentially. The findings suggest that effective social work interventions for psychological distress should be targeted toward social support and Internet addiction among left-behind children.
家庭功能已被证明与青少年和儿童的心理健康有关，但在中 国背景下，很少有研究探讨其在留守儿童中的间接机制。本研究旨在探讨家庭功能对心理困扰的直接影响，以及社会支持和互联网成瘾在留守儿童中的中介作用。本研究采用多阶段随机抽样方法，在江苏省招募了 1355 名学生参与基于学校的问卷调查。采用 Amos26.0 结构方程模型检验变量的直接和间接路径。研究结果支持我们的假设，表明家庭功能对留守儿童的心理困扰有直接影响。同时，家庭功能与心理困扰之间的关联分别通过社会支持和互联网成瘾来中介，且具有序列性。研究结果表明，对于留守儿童的心理困扰，应采取有效的社会工作干预措施，针对社会支持和互联网成瘾问题进行干预。
