Citation

Ai H, Hu J. J. Health Psychol. 2014; 21(6): 1066-1073.

Affiliation

The Affiliated Party School of CPC Guangxi, China hujunmin20@126.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105314544992

PMID

25139895

Abstract

This study examined the moderator effect of psychological resilience on the relationship between social support and loneliness of the "left-behind" children. A total of 200 left-behind girls and 214 left-behind boys completed the measures of psychological resilience, social support, and loneliness. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that psychological resilience moderated the association between social support and loneliness. When left-behind children reported a low level of psychological resilience, those with high social support reported lower scores in loneliness than those with low social support. However, the impact of social support on loneliness was much smaller in the high psychological resilience group, compared with that in low psychological resilience group.

Language: en