Abstract:

The long-term separation from parents makes the left-behind children in the rural areas encounter varying degrees of problems in social interaction, school life, and emotion management, which directly results in the bad situation of their mental toughness, and is not conducive to the healthy growth of left-behind children. Selecting Suining county of Xuzhou city as the research subject and collecting data by interview questionnaire, the mental toughness level of left-behind children is researched. The results shows that, the level of mental toughness of rural left-behind children is influenced by age, gender, type of care, rural type etc., based on which the several conclusions are drawn.

Key words: left-behind children, rural area, mental toughness, influencing factor