Stressful Life Events, Depression, and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Among Chinese Left-Behind Children: Moderating Effects of Self-Esteem

ConclusionOur present study had three main findings. First, stressful life events had a significant effect on left-behind children’s depression and NSSI. Second, self-esteem had a significant moderating function on the relationship between stressful life events and depression, as well as between stressful life events and NSSI. Third, we found that compared with the increase of stressful life events, the rise of NSSI in the one-migrating-parent children was more rapid.Ethics StatementThe present study was carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the Research Ethics Committee of Beijing Normal University with written informed consent from all subjects. The protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Beijing Normal University. All subjects gave written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.Author ContributionsXL conceived and designed the study and supervised the collection of data. TL, XL, and XJ analyzed and interpreted the data, and produced the drafting of the manuscripts. DL supervised all steps in the study.FundingThe child development database establishment under rural-to-urban migration context and the establishment of positive youth development system, Supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China (15ZDB138).Conflict of Interest StatementThe authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict o...
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research