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Table 4 Association between parent-child separation characteristics and child’s social-emotional problems

From: Impact of parent-child separation on children’s social-emotional development: a cross-sectional study of left-behind children in poor rural areas of China

 

OR (95% CI)

aOR (95% CI)

FM-MC

 Child age at the first paternal migration

0.96 (0.91 to 1.02)

0.96 (0.90 to 1.02)

 Average duration per paternal migration

1.03 (0.99 to 1.09)

1.00 (0.94 to 1.05)

 Proportion of cumulative durations to paternal migration in the child’s lifetime

1.29 (0.44 to 3.82)

0.90 (0.26 to 3.08)

PM-GC

 Child age at the first paternal migration

1.01 (0.98 to 1.04)

1.00 (0.97 to 1.03)

 Child age at the first maternal migration

0.98 (0.95 to 1.01)

0.97 (0.94 to 1.01)

 Average duration per paternal migration

1.00 (0.97 to 1.03)

0.96 (0.93 to 1.00)

 Average duration per maternal migration

1.05 (1.01 to 1.09)

1.01 (0.96 to 1.05)

 Proportion of cumulative durations to paternal migration in the child’s lifetime

0.99 (0.49 to 2.02)

0.98 (0.42 to 2.29)

 Proportion of cumulative durations to maternal migration in the child’s lifetime

2.98 (1.36 to 6.51)

2.83 (1.13 to 7.10)

  1. ORs were not adjusted for any covariate; aORs were adjusted for county, children’s characteristics (sex, age, low birth weight), primary caregivers’ characteristics (age, ethnic, education, depression, having assistant caregiver), and poor household wealth. The bolding ORs or aORs are statistically significant at the level of p < 0.05