Effects of core self-evaluation on tobacco and alcohol use among left-behind children: mediating role of fear of missing out and moderating role of parental migration category and gender.

IF 2.7 3区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

BMC Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI:10.1186/s40359-025-02582-7

Lijuan Zhu, Yali Zhang, Hong Wang

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Abstract

Background: Tobacco and alcohol use are quite prevalent among left-behind children, and core self-evaluation is an important contributing factor. Current research has rarely focused on the underlying mechanisms between these variables. This study aims to explore the relationships between core self-evaluation and tobacco and alcohol use among left-behind children, and the mediating effect of fear of missing out as well as the moderating effect of parental migration category and gender.

Methods: For this study, data were collected from January 2024 to February 2025 at 25 rural primary and junior high schools in 5 cities in Jiangsu Province via a random cluster sampling method. A total of 1795 left-behind children were surveyed with the Core Self-Evaluation Scale, the Tobacco and Alcohol Use Questionnaire and the Multidimensional Fear of Missing Out Scale. SPSS 26.0 software was used for descriptive statistics and correlation analysis, and Mplus 8.4 software was used to analyse the mediation effect and moderated mediation effect.

Results: Core self-evaluation was significantly associated with tobacco and alcohol use; the fear of missing out partly mediated the relationships between core self-evaluation and tobacco and alcohol use; the parental migration category served as a moderating factor in the mediation model, specifically, in households with dual-parent migration, the associations between fear of missing out and tobacco and alcohol use were more significant; no significant gender differences were observed in the relationships between fear of missing out and tobacco and alcohol use.

Conclusions: This finding indicated that core self-evaluation contributed to tobacco and alcohol use among left-behind children through fear of missing out, and the parental migration category moderated the latter half of the mediating model.

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核心自我评价对留守儿童烟酒使用的影响：错过恐惧的中介作用和父母迁移类别和性别的调节作用

背景：在留守儿童中，烟酒使用相当普遍，核心自我评价是一个重要的影响因素。目前的研究很少关注这些变量之间的潜在机制。本研究旨在探讨留守儿童核心自我评价与烟酒使用的关系，以及错过恐惧的中介作用以及父母迁移类别和性别的调节作用。方法：采用随机整群抽样方法，于2024年1月至2025年2月对江苏省5个城市的25所农村中小学进行数据采集。采用核心自我评价量表、烟酒使用问卷和多维缺失恐惧量表对1795名留守儿童进行了调查。采用SPSS 26.0软件进行描述性统计和相关分析，采用Mplus 8.4软件分析中介效应和调节中介效应。结果：核心自我评价与烟酒使用显著相关；对错过的恐惧在一定程度上介导了核心自我评价与烟酒使用之间的关系；父母迁移类别在中介模型中起调节作用，具体而言，在双亲迁移的家庭中，对错过的恐惧与烟酒使用之间的关联更为显著；在对错过的恐惧与烟酒使用之间的关系中，没有观察到显著的性别差异。结论：这一发现表明，核心自我评价通过害怕错过而促进了留守儿童的烟草和酒精使用，父母迁移类别调节了中介模型的后半部分。

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BMC Psychology Psychology-Psychology (all)

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

2.80%

发文量

265

审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, health and social psychology, as well as personality and individual differences. The journal welcomes quantitative and qualitative research methods, including animal studies.