The Impact of Perceived Personal Discrimination on Problem Behavior of Left-Behind Children: A Moderated Mediating Effec
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The Impact of Perceived Personal Discrimination on Problem Behavior of Left‑Behind Children: A Moderated Mediating Effect Model Shutao Wang1 · Fangzhou Xie1 Accepted: 30 August 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract This study aimed to determine how pathological Internet use and emotional intelligence affect the relationship between perceived personal discrimination and problem behavior of left behind children. Data were collected from 406 left-behind students from 6 rural primary and secondary schools in Mainland China. Results indicated that perceived personal discrimination could be a predictor of left-behind children’s pathological Internet use, and further cause their problem behavior. Pathological Internet use had a partial mediating effect on the relation between perceived personal discrimination and problem behavior. In addition, emotional intelligence played a moderating role in the relationship between perceived personal discrimination and problem behavior, as well as between pathological Internet use and problem behavior. Emotional intelligence could alleviate the negative impact of perceived personal discrimination on problem behavior, as well as the negative impact of pathological Internet use on problem behavior. Keywords Perceived personal discrimination · Pathological internet use · Emotional intelligence · Problem behavior · Leftbehind children
Introduction The problem of left-behind children has aroused widespread concern around the world. With increase in the number of transnational or urban–rural working migrants, the number of children left behind has grown rapidly in China, Philippines, Ecuador, South Africa, and other countries or regions in the world [1]. In this study, left-behind children refers to rural children who are taken care of by one parent, grandparents, or someone else because one or both parents migrant to work in cities [2]. Studies have found that left-behind children tend to have more emotional and behavior problems, such as learning disabilities, emotional disorders, reduced well-being, abandonment feeling, bad habits, behavioral disorders and other problems [3–6], and they are significantly unhealthier than non-left-behind children mentally [7, 8]. Some left-behind children exhibited an increased likelihood of problem behavior such as fighting and rule breaking [9], and some even committed crimes such as theft and
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extortion [10, 11]. With the increasing problem behaviors of left behind children, it is of great significance to determine the influencing mechanism of problem behavior. Perceived personal discrimination is a negative cognition, which refers to the perception of an individual that he or she is and his or her group are negatively evaluated or treated unfairly [12, 13]. Compared with objective discrimination, perceived personal discrimination is a psychological reality that influences the psychology and behavior of individuals [14, 15]. Comprehensive theoreti
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