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Table 2 Parent–child communication and psychological resilience outcomes by parental absence status, mean (SD)

From: Impact of parental divorce versus separation due to migration on mental health and self-injury of Chinese children: a cross sectional survey

 

BLBC

SLBC

DC

NLBC

F

P value

Mother-adolescent communication

 Openness subscale (10–50)@

29.4 (6.0)

29.0 (6.4)

27.6 (7.1)

30.0 (6.2)

17.13

 < 0.001

 Problem subscale (10–50)#

22.0(5.2)

22.6 (5.2)

22.8 (5.6)

21.4 (5.3)

12.19

 < 0.001

 Total scale (20–100)$

57.5 (10.2)

56.5 (10.5)

54.8 (11.0)

58.6 (10.4)

16.52

 < 0.001

Father-adolescent communication

 Openness subscale (10–50)%

28.9 (6.6)

29.4 (6.7)

27.0 (7.1)

29.9 (6.7)

21.95

 < 0.001

 Problem subscale (10–50)&

21.2 (5.4)

20.5 (5.4)

22.3 (5.6)

19.9 (5.4)

25.39

 < 0.001

 Total scale (20–100)*

57.8 (10.8)

58.9 (11.0)

54.8 (11.5)

60.2 (11.1)

27.60

 < 0.001

 Resilience total score (0–100)!

57.5 (16.5)

58.6 (16.0)

53.8 (16.2)

60.9 (16.3)

21.84

 < 0.001

  1. LBC left-behind children, BLBC LBC with both parents migrating, SLBC LBC with one parent migrating; NLBC neither parents had migrated; DC children living in a divorced family without migrant parents
  2. @: Post-hoc, (1,3), (2,3), (2,4), (3,4); #: Post-hoc, (2,4), (3,4); $: Post-hoc, (1,3), (2,3), (2,4), (3,4);
  3. %: Post-hoc, (1,3), (1,4), (2,3), (3,4); &: Post-hoc, (1,2), (1,3), (1,4), (2,3), (2,4), (3,4);
  4. *: Post-hoc, (1,3), (1,4), (2,3), (2,4), (3,4); !: Post-hoc, (1,3), (1,4), (2,3), (2,4), (3,4)