Mental resilience tested with the Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents (RSCA)in Chinese children:A meta-analysis / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To synthesize the mental resilience of Chinese children tested with the Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents (RSCA)to evaluate its status as well as the research status. Methods:Four Chinese elec-tronic databases including China Biology Medicine disc (CBM),VIP Database,China National Knowledge Infra-structure (CNKI)and WangFang Database were searched from database established to December 2014. Literatures that reported the mental resilience status of Chinese children tested with RSCA were included. A statistical formula was used to synthesize means and standard deviations to get a total score;the standard mean difference (SMD)and 95% confidence interval (95%CI)of scores measured with RSCA scale were used to conduct meta-analyses usingthe software of Review Manager 5. 2 for comparison between different subgroups. Results:Thirty-nine studies with 16 493 children were included for the final analysis. Quantitative synthesis results showed that the average total score of Chinese children was (3. 3 0. 6 ). The status of psychological resilience was at a good level. The average psychological resilience scores of girls,not left-behind children,urban children,Han children and not-only-child were higher than those of boys [SMD (95%CI)-0. 09 (-0. 14--0. 05 )],left-behind children [SMD (95%CI)-0. 37(-0. 56--0. 19)],rural children [SMD (95%CI)0. 26(0. 13 -0. 38)],minority children [SMD (95%CI)0. 12(0. 04-0. 21)]and only-children [SMD (95%CI)0. 30(0. 16-0. 44)]respectively. Conclusion:The mental resilience of Chinese children is modest with internal diversity.