Associations of latent patterns of parent‒child communication with communication quality and mental health outcomes among Chinese left-behind children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parent‒child communication in migrant families is essential to family bonds and the mental health of left-behind children (LBC). Little is known about the different patterns of communication between migrant parents and LBC and associated communication quality and mental health outcomes.

Methods

A sample of 2,183 Chinese children (mean age = 12.95 ± 1.29 years) from Anhui province, including LBC whose parents had both migrated (n = 1,025) and children whose parents had never migrated (never-LBC, n = 1,158), was analyzed. With the LBC sample, latent class analysis was applied to identify the patterns of parent‒child communication. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was conducted to assess the associations between the sociodemographic variables and class member

SUBMITTER: Xie QW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10829291 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature