Refueling Mental Health: Digital Reading Predicts Psychological Resilience for Left‐behind Children in Rural China

Q3 Social Sciences

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1002/pra2.806

Liang Zhao, Zihan Zeng, Jiayi Liu, Yachen Zhang

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ABSTRACT Beyond the easy and equal access to massive online contents, will digital reading bring more social welfare values for disadvantaged groups? Take left‐behind children (LBC) in rural China as example, whose mental health issue has widely aroused public concern. Lacking of sufficient parental supervision and educational resources leads to insufficient development of psychological resilience and makes them vulnerable to mental health problems. As psychological resilience is a critical protective factor for maintaining mental health, in this paper, we wonder whether digital reading could perform as an alternative way with easy accessibility and numerous resources to supplement LBC's resilience development. We conducted a field questionnaire study on LBC (N = 217) and investigated the predictive effect of digital reading on psychological resilience. After controlling sociodemographic variables and common resilience protective factors, hierarchical regression results demonstrated that digital reading predicted an additional 4.3% of the variation in resilience above the control variables, indicating digital reading a positive promoter of LBC's psychological resilience. Moreover, by systematically exploring the fine‐grained digital reading variables, we also found intrinsic motivation to read and recreational digital reading (e.g., reading comics and communicating online) to be the two most stronger predictors of psychological resilience.

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为心理健康加油:数字阅读预测中国农村留守儿童的心理弹性

除了方便、平等地获取海量在线内容之外，数字阅读是否能为弱势群体带来更多的社会福利价值?以中国农村留守儿童为例，他们的心理健康问题引起了社会的广泛关注。缺乏足够的父母监督和教育资源，导致心理弹性发展不足，容易出现心理健康问题。由于心理弹性是维持心理健康的重要保护因素，本文想知道数字阅读是否可以作为一种易于获取和资源丰富的替代方式来补充LBC的弹性发展。我们对LBC (N = 217)进行了实地问卷调查，探讨了数字阅读对心理弹性的预测作用。在控制了社会人口学变量和常见的心理弹性保护因素后，层次回归结果显示，数字阅读在控制变量的基础上预测了4.3%的心理弹性变异，表明数字阅读是LBC心理弹性的积极促进因素。此外，通过系统地探索细粒度数字阅读变量，我们还发现阅读的内在动机和娱乐性数字阅读(例如，阅读漫画和在线交流)是心理弹性的两个最强大的预测因素。

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Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences

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