Research On The Relationship Between Psychological Elasticity Of Left - Behind Children And Social Support

With more and more attention on left-home-kids, the educational intervention of left-home-kids has become a hot issue in recent years. Resilience was considered as an effective buffer against pressure or adversity. Individuals with high resilience could endure hardship well. Perceived social support was one of the important resources for coping with pressure, which was beneficial to individual’s mental health. This study tried to identify the relations between resilience and perceived social support and enhance the resilience of left-home-kids by cognitive behavior training and perceived social support group counseling.The Healthy Kids Resilience Assessment and Perceived Social Support Scale were adopted to survey684elementary students in Henan to analyze their special characters and explore the relation between them. On basis of this research, left-home-kids were selected to two groups, a training experimental group and a control group. The training experimental group was conducted of psychology training while nothing was done to the control group. The two groups were tested before the intervention, at the end of the intervention and three months after the end of the intervention to evaluate the immediate effect and short-time maintenance.Research conclusions are as follows:(1) Left-home-kids had significant lower scores on resilience and perceived social support than the normal children.(2) The resilience level of left-home-kids was significantly different in gender and grade, the girl’s scores were significantly higher than the boys, the fifth grade students’scores were significantly higher than the sixth grades.(3) The resilience level of left-home-kids varied in staying time, the frequency of parents’ returning home, the ways of informing about going out. The scores became lower with longer staying time, became higher with more reunion opportunities with parents; the scores of parents informing were higher than relative informing, and the scores of relative informing were higher than others informing.(4) The perceived social support level of left-home-kids varies in the staying time, the frequency of parents’ returning home, the ways of informing about going out. The scores became lower with longer staying time, became higher with more reunion opportunities with parents; the scores of parents informing were higher than relative informing, and the scores of relative informing higher than others informing.(5) The perceived social support of left-home-kids had significantly positive correction with resilience; family support, friend support and other support were measurable to the prediction of internal protective factors of resilience on basis of regression analysis.(6) Cognitive behavior training and gratitude training had significant effect on enhanced the resilience of home-left-kids. The scores on resilience and perceived social support became significantly higher after training, and the short-time effect is intervention was good.