ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To explore the status of life events and its relationship with depression of college students from rural areas with left-behind experience, so as to provide evidence for psychological intervention. METHODS: In 2015 May-July, a total of 682 rural undergraduate in four regular colleges( all of them are unified national admission universities) recruited from four cities in Hebei Province. Chengde City, Baoding City, Qinhuangdao City, and Handan City are in the north, middle, east and south of Hebei Province, respectively. Each city was selected one regular college. A multi-stage stratified cluster sampling was used to select 682 participants, who are evaluated by questionnaires( Center for Epidimiologic Studies Depression Scale, Adolescent Self-rating Life Events Check List). According to the presence of left-behind experience in childhood, they can be divided into two groups, students with left-behind experience and students with no leftbehind experience. The group which has 137 students with left-behind experience includes51 boys and 86 girls. The group which has 545 students with no left-behind experience includes 210 boys and 335 girls. RESULTS: For the college students with left-behind experience, the common life events were studying pressure, interpersonal relationship and health adaptation. Those college students with left-behind experience had significant difference from those who hadn't such an experience in punishment and other factors of life events( t followed by 2. 158 and 3. 020, P < 0. 05). The depression levels of the college student with left-behind experience and no left-behind experience were( 36. 92 ±8. 96) and( 33. 71 ± 8. 16), respectively. Those college students with left-behind experience had significant difference from those who hadn 't such an experience in depression( t = 3. 297, P < 0. 05). 3. Correlative analysis indicated six factors of life events of college students with left-behind experience had remarkably positive relevance with depression( r followed by 0. 446, 0. 466, 0. 371, 0. 246, 0. 427 and 0. 378, P < 0. 01). Regression analysis implied study pressure( ß = 0. 329) and healthy adaptation( ß =0. 240) of life events of college students with left-behind experience assumed predictive role for depression( R2= 0. 242). CONCLUSION: Those college students with left-behind experience are more susceptible to feel the negative life events. Life events have much effect on depression.
