Research On The Relationship Between Left-behind Students’ Self-concept In Rural Areas, Mental Health And Academic Achievement

With the continuous increase in the size of rural children left behind, and the community more and more of their attention. In this study, high school students left in rural areas for the survey, the relationship between students’ self-concept stay, mental health and academic performance were studied. This study aimed to investigate the self-concept and mental health characteristics of the current remaining in rural areas, and whether there are differences between high school students and non-students left, and self-concept, mental health and academic achievement of middle school students to stay in depth, clear relationship between the three, and self-concept study, how to have an impact on the mental health of middle school students left behind academically. Quantitative research methods, selected rural Attended and Unattended totaling 750 high school students called the research object, the use of self-description Questionnaire(SDQ-Ⅱ) and symptom checklist for measuring tools, SPSS17.0 statistical analysis of the data. The following conclusions:(1) There is no significant differences in self-concept, mental health and academic performance between Left-behind school students and non-left-behind students in rural(2) There were significant differences in the grade among total self-concept, non-academic self-concept and academic self-concept in Rural left-behind students; the level of self-concept of middle school students in grades two days of stay was significantly lower than junior high school students left behind the other two grades, sophomore year self-concept was significantly lower than the other two grades of high school; high school students in rural areas left behind gender differences in self-concept and self-concept level of boys than girls.(3) There were significant differences in grade depression and psychotic factor among Left high school students in rural mental health scores, somatization and anxiety, and with the grade increases, mental health showed a downward trend.Rural girls Left high school in terror and sleep and diet score on two factors were significantly higher than boys, and in the hostile and paranoid boys scored significantly higher than girls. Other factors and mental health scores no significant gender differences.(4) There is a significant positive correlation between Self-concept and academic achievement in left-behind students in rural, academic self-concept in which the correlation with the highest academic achievement, academic self-concept, in addition to the language of mathematics self-concept and academic achievement not significant, the rest were subscale a positive correlation with the performance of language, mathematics and English three disciplines.(5) There is a significant positive correlation Left-behind students in rural areas in general self-concept and overall mental health, while self-concept subscale except mathematics self, physical self and honest self and mental health scores are not significant, and the remaining seven sub-scales a significant positive correlation with the mental Health showed.(6) There is a significant positive correlation in Left-behind students in rural areas between mental health and academic achievement.(7) Rural left-behind students’ self-concept has significant predictive on academic mental health is also a significant predictor; mental health can be a significant predictor of academic performance.(8) Mental Health is a partial mediator between self-concept andacademic.