title: [Relationship of left-behind children's mental health, coping style, personality and self-efficacy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the relationship of left-behind children's mental health, coping style and personality, and analyze mediating effect of self-efficacy.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 585 left-behind children were evaluated by questionnaires of MHT, EPQ, WCSQ and GSES.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Left-behind children's lonely tendency detection rate (6.3%) was significantly higher than their counterparts (χ2 = 4.225, P < 0.05). The subscales of MHT were positively related with remorse, fantasy, retreat (P < 0.01), but were negatively related with solve the problem, rationalization, self-efficacy. The analysis showed that self-efficacy had mediating effect affection. The structural modeling fitted the data well (χ2/df = 6.840, GFI = 0.972, AGFI = 0.918, NFI = 0.923, CFI = 0.962, RMSEA = 0.044).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Personality has direct effect on the prediction of left-behind children's mental health. Self-efficacy has mediating effect affection on MHT and personality.
authors.forename: Huashan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Linlin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mu
authors.forename: Xingli
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xie
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D010551:Personality; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires