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. 2023 Jan 11;20(2):1334.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021334.

What Matters on Rural Left-Behind Children's Problem Behavior: Family Socioeconomic Status or Perceived Discrimination

Wangqian Fu  1 , Rui Xue  2 , Hongqin Chai  2 , Wenxiang Sun  3 , Fangrui Jiang  1
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What Matters on Rural Left-Behind Children's Problem Behavior: Family Socioeconomic Status or Perceived Discrimination

Wangqian Fu et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

With the acceleration of China's industrialization and urbanization, there is a large number of left-behind children in China who are reported with more challenges in development. The study aims to analyze the differences in family socioeconomic status (SES) and discrimination perception between left-behind children and non-left-behind children and further explore whether SES or discrimination perception has a greater impact on the problem behaviors of left-behind children. We found the family SES of left-behind children was significantly lower than that of non-left-behind children; left-behind children's perceived discrimination was significantly higher than that of non-left-behind children; perceived discrimination of left-behind children had a greater impact on their problem behavior than the family SES.

Keywords: family socioeconomic status; left-behind children; perceived discrimination; problem behavior.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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