Assessment of Effect of Perceived Social Support on School Readiness, Mental Wellbeing, and Self-Esteem: Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience

Abstract

Objective of this study is to investigate the impact of perceived social support on the self-esteem, mental wellbeing, and school readiness of left-behind (LB) children. It further aims at understanding the mediating role of psychological resilience between the relationships of perceived social support and self-esteem, mental wellbeing, and school readiness. For this purpose, population frame of the LB children between the ages of 8–12 years in Mainland China was taken. The sample size of 335 was taken to reach the findings through partial least square (PLS) structural equation modeling. The SmartPLS has been used to analyze the data. The results obtained in this study have shown that the perceived social support plays a very significant role in enhancing the mental wellbeing, self-esteem, and school readiness of the LB children. It has also been found that the perceived social support plays a positive role in the psychological resilience. Furthermore, it has also been found that the psychological resilience is an important predictor of self-esteem and school readiness. Further, the psychological resilience has proved to be significant mediator between the relationship of the perceived social support and self-esteem; and also between the relationship of the perceived social support and school readiness.

Mediating roles of perceived social support and sense of security in the relationship between negative life events and life satisfaction among left-behind children: A cross-sectional study

“…This study also found that the sense of security among LBC played a mediating role between negative life events and life satisfaction, which was consistent with the findings of Rowe et al (2013). LBC have a sense of powerlessness in coping with negative life events and may adopt a negative attribution bias (Shi, 2022). They perceive negative life events as uncontrollable and anticipate them.…”

Bisexual Discrimination, Internalized Binegativity and their Impact on Mental Health

“…Social support has been described as a protective factor against mental health problems (Mei et al, 2022) and stigma (Friedman et al, 2014). It has been associated with better adaptation to stressful factors (Schmitt et al, 2014) and with resilience (Salim et al, 2019), as it improves selfefficacy (Wang et al, 2020), self-esteem (Shi, 2022), and life satisfaction (Alshammari et al, 2021). In fact, lack of social support appears to be associated with more severe psychiatric symptoms (Morina et al, 2021).…”