Keywords
Left-behind children
Questionnaire
Review
Submitted : 2024-06-30
Accepted : 2024-07-15
Published : 2024-07-30
Abstract
Left-behind children are a special group in the process of urban development. They lack parental care, which affects the development of mental health. Anxiety is one of the most common psychological problems in children around the world. It has an important impact on children’s emotions and social interaction, lasting until adulthood. To study the anxiety of left-behind children, this study summarized the screening tools for children’s anxiety in this review and found that there is no anxiety questionnaire for left-behind children at present and most of the existing anxiety questionnaires for children are not completely based on the existing diagnostic criteria. As a result, these scales are not able to accurately measure all contents covered by the concept of children’s anxiety. The study summarized the left-behind anxiety questionnaire to provide some ideas for choosing a questionnaire for researchers studying left-behind children. In addition, the study believes that the development of anxiety scales for left-behind children as soon as possible and the use of multiple measurement methods should be the direction of future researchers.
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