Analysis of personality characteristics of left-behind junior high school students in Chongqing Three Gorges Reservoir Area / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the current status of personality characteristics of the left-behind rural junior middle school students in Chongqing Three Gorges reservoir area,and to analyze the influence of different left-behind status on the development of junior high school students' personality.Methods The stratified cluster sampling method was adopted to extract the left-behind rural junior middle school students aged 12-15 years old from 1 vocational middle school and 2 junior middle school in Wuxi,Yunyang and Wanzhou of the Chongqing Three Gorges reservoir area.A questionnaire survey was conducted by using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) children's edition and self-compiled questionnaires.The original scores were converted into the standard scores (T) for conducting the comparative analysis.Results A total of 438 questionnaires were issued and 380 effective questionnaires were recycled with the effective rate of 86.8 ％,including 204 left-behind junior middle school students and 176 nonleft-behind junior middle school students.The typical neuroticism (T≥61.5) in the left-behind rural junior middle school students accounted for 31.4％,the typical introversion type and extroversion type respectively accounted for 7.8％ and 7.4％.The scores in the dimensions of nervouness and neuroticism had statistical difference between the left-behind junior middle school students and non-left-behind junior middle school students (P＜0.05).The family income and age had a significant impact on the concealed personality of left-behind junior high school students (P＜0.05);grandparents as caregivers had a significant impact on introversion and extroversion in different genders of left-behind junior high school students (P＜0.05).The introversion and extroversion scores of father caring students were lower than those of non-father caring students (P＜0.05).The concealing scores of father caring students were lower than those of non-father caring students(P＜0.05).Conclsion The family factor and school factor are main causes affecting the personality characteristics of the left-behind junior middle school students.