A Study On The Loneliness And Its Social Support Of The Left-behind Children In Senior Grade Of Primary School

A Study on the Loneliness and Its Social Support of the Left-behind Children in Senior Grade of Primary SchoolFrom the scale point of view,the National Women's Federation report in 2013 pointed out that there were 61 million left-behind children in the country,accounting for 21.88% of the total number of children.Additionally,from the seriousness of the problem,the left-behind children are faced with academic,security,behavior,moral and mental health,and many other challenges,because their parents go out to make a living.Therefore,in recent years,left-behind children has always been the study object of the academic circle,and their psychological health problem is also the focus of the hot topics.Left-behind children's psychological health development is necessarily the result of the interaction between children and living environment.Therefore,the support of living environment to children's psychological health is very important.According to the above mentioned,this study managed to study the issue that how the alienated living environment reduces the loneliness of left-behind children.To achieve this objective,the author tried to know the daily life of left-behind children through the method of participatory research,with the main research tools of CLS,SSRS and the designed questionnaire of social support.This paper made the investigation to 529 left-behind children of senior grade from countryside and suburb primary school,and used SPSS and AMOS to analyze the data.This paper analyzed the cause of children's loneliness by studying the level and source of social support,and drew the following conclusions:(1)Left-behind children's social support model is characterized by low level and high utilization degree,and the source structure of social support is obviously balanced;they experience more intense loneliness and the loss of subjective support is the main reason.(2)The support utilization degree of male left-behind children is low,and it affects the objective and subjective support,so their sense of loneliness is much more intense.(3)Left-behind children of junior grade with weak social support experience more intense loneliness.(4)Due to the marginalization,the social support and loneliness of left-behind children in suburb primary school are in a more serious trouble than that of left-behind children in countryside primary school.On the basis,this paper gives the following strategies of social support:(1)From the perspective of family,firstly,the communication between left-behind children and parents should be strengthened,to narrow the psychological distance,and to improve the level of children's subjective support;secondly,the education investment should be increased,to enrich children's material environment and to improve the level of objective support.(2)From the perspective of school,firstly,left-behind children should get close to their fellow students,to improve the quality of friendship and to get more subjective support;secondly,the teacher should focus on fair education,to prevent the marginalization of left-behind children and to guarantee the level of objective support;finally,the strategy education should be strengthened,to improve the children's usage of social support.(3)From the perspective of cooperation between family and school,firstly,the phenomenon of the support alienation between family and school should be eliminated,to strengthen the communication among parents,teachers and the supervisor of left-behind children;secondly,the teacher and the school should develop actively the function to guide and promote the direction and force of the support from family and school,to form the combination force of social support from family and school to left-behind children.