Perception Of Discrimination And Depression Of Rural Left-behind Children:Mediating Role Of Friendship Quality

Left-behind children's emotional adaptation by the community's attention,depression is one of the most common emotional problems in rural children left behind.The persistence of depression will not only lead to a series of psychological and behavioral problems of adolescents,but also affect the normal development of adulthood.Therefore,the influencing factors and influencing mechanism of adolescent depression are worthy of our attention.Previous studies have found that the three variables of discrimination,friendship and depression affect each other,but the lack of simultaneous study of the relationship between the three variables,the three variables between the mechanism is not clear.This study examines the relationship between discrimination perception,quality of friendship and depression.The present study has applied the psychological measurement method,discrimination,friendship quality and depression were investigated on 629 left-behind children from two-parent families and 1074 left-behind children from father-migrant families.The relationship between the discriminatory perception and the quality of friendship on the depression of the left-behind children in rural areas was examined,and the mediating effect between the quality of friendship and the depression of children was discussed.The conclusions are as follows:1.The main effect of the perceived personal discrimination is not significant;the main effect of group discrimination is significant,and left-behind children from two-parent families is significantly higher than that of left-behind children from father-migrant families.The main effect of discrimination on sex is not significant.left-behind children individual discrimination perception was significantly higher than the group discrimination perception.The relationship between trust and support dimension,companion and entertainment dimension,affirmative value dimension is significant in the left-behind category,and the length of the left-behind children issignificantly higher than that of the father.The gender effect of the dimensions of friendship,the dimensions of trust and support,the degree of companion and entertainment,the value of affirmation and the degree of intimate exposure and communication were significantly higher than those of boys,and the boys in the conflict and betrayal dimensions were significantly higher than those of girls.Depression has a significant main effect on the remaining category,and the level of adversity in rural children is significantly lower than that of fathers who are going abroad and non-left-behind children.2.The individual discrimination and group discrimination of rural children can significantly predict their depression,that is,the higher the level of discrimination,the higher the level of depression in children;the quality of friendship can significantly predict children's depression,conflict and betrayal dimensions can significantly predict children's depression.3.The quality of friendship play a mediating role in children's individual discrimination perception and group discrimination perception and depression.