title: ['Life satisfaction' as a moderator or mediator of accommodation category and loneliness for rural school students].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine life satisfaction as a moderator or mediator of accommodation category and loneliness for elementary and middle school students in rural areas so as to provide evidence for psychological health intervention among said students.
  
  
  METHODS
  All participants were asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire battery which including an 18-item General Health Questionnaire, Children's Loneliness Scale and Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average score of loneliness scale (35.0 +/- 9.5) among boarding-school students was significantly higher than those students living at home (33.1 +/- 10.1) (P < 0.01). The average scores on school-satisfaction (33.5 +/- 6.3), friend-satisfaction (42.1 +/- 6.2) and self-satisfaction (32.4 +/- 5.0) of boarding-school students were significantly higher than those students living at home (35.9 +/- 6.6, 42.9 +/- 6.6, 32.9 +/- 5.3) (P < 0.05). The association between accommodation category and loneliness was fully mediated by school-satisfaction (the standardized coefficients of loneliness was reduced from 0.043 (P < 0.05) to 0.021 (P > 0.05) and partly mediated by self-satisfaction and friend-satisfaction. Data through Moderation analyses indicated that self-satisfaction, school-satisfaction and friend-satisfaction did not serve as moderators.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Accommodation category, life satisfaction seemed to be good predictors on loneliness among elementary and middle school students and the fully mediated effect of school-satisfaction between accommodation category and loneliness was significant, suggesting that intervention of loneliness should focus on these variables.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China.
authors.forename: Zhao-Hui
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Fang-Biao
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Jia-Hu
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Dai-Juan
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Li-Min
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Xiao
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008132:Loneliness / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D012424:Rural Population; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires