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The role of resilience and student-teacher relationship to parent-child separation-PTSS among left-behind children in China

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  • Ge, Yabo
  • Ding, Wan
  • Xie, Ruibo
  • Kayani, Sumaira
  • Li, Weijian

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Despite the large body of research on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms (PTSS) caused by “part forever”, such as catastrophic events (e.g., earthquake), relatively few studies focus exclusively on PTSS caused by “living with separation” among the rural left-behind children in China. To investigate the relationship between resilience, student–teacher relationship, and parent–child separation-PTSS (PCS-PTSS), 271 rural left-behind children in Anhui province of China were recruited to participate in the current study. A longitudinal tracking study collected data on resilience, student–teacher relationship, and PCS-PTSS at two-time points. Multilevel linear regression analysis showed that age and resilience significantly negatively predict the PCS-PTSS marginally after controlling for gender, and the regression slope of age on PCS-PTSS was moderated considerably by the student–teacher relationship, which indicates the student–teacher relationship can weaken the predictive effect of age on PCS-PTSS. Additionally, the student–teacher relationship did not moderate the regression slope of resilience on parent–child separation PTSS. The present study mainly sheds light on the role of resilience and the student–teacher relationship to PCS-PTSS. The theoretical and practical implications, as well as the limitations of the current study, are discussed.

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  • Ge, Yabo & Ding, Wan & Xie, Ruibo & Kayani, Sumaira & Li, Weijian, 2022. "The role of resilience and student-teacher relationship to parent-child separation-PTSS among left-behind children in China," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:139:y:2022:i:c:s0190740922001979
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106561
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