The Effect of Boarding on the Mental Health of Primary School Students in Western Rural China

Based on the panel data of 20,594 fourth- and fifth-grade students in the western provinces A and B in China, this paper analyzed the effect of boarding at school on the mental health of students using a combination of the propensity score matching (PSM) and difference-in-differences (DID) methods....

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Autores principales: Tang, Bin, Wang, Yue, Gao, Yujuan, Wu, Shijin, Li, Haoyang, Chen, Yang, Shi, Yaojiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7664204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33172019
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218200
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author Tang, Bin
Wang, Yue
Gao, Yujuan
Wu, Shijin
Li, Haoyang
Chen, Yang
Shi, Yaojiang
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description Based on the panel data of 20,594 fourth- and fifth-grade students in the western provinces A and B in China, this paper analyzed the effect of boarding at school on the mental health of students using a combination of the propensity score matching (PSM) and difference-in-differences (DID) methods. The results showed that boarding had no significant effect on the mental health of students, but the tendency of loneliness among boarding school students was increased. Heterogeneity analysis found that fifth-grade students whose parents had both left home to work were more likely to have poorer mental health when boarding. This paper has essential policy significance for guiding rural primary schools to improve the mental health of boarding school students, especially left-behind children.
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spelling pubmed-76642042020-11-14 The Effect of Boarding on the Mental Health of Primary School Students in Western Rural China Tang, Bin Wang, Yue Gao, Yujuan Wu, Shijin Li, Haoyang Chen, Yang Shi, Yaojiang Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Based on the panel data of 20,594 fourth- and fifth-grade students in the western provinces A and B in China, this paper analyzed the effect of boarding at school on the mental health of students using a combination of the propensity score matching (PSM) and difference-in-differences (DID) methods. The results showed that boarding had no significant effect on the mental health of students, but the tendency of loneliness among boarding school students was increased. Heterogeneity analysis found that fifth-grade students whose parents had both left home to work were more likely to have poorer mental health when boarding. This paper has essential policy significance for guiding rural primary schools to improve the mental health of boarding school students, especially left-behind children. MDPI 2020-11-06 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7664204/ /pubmed/33172019 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218200 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7664204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33172019
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218200
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