Mediation of coping style and learning self-efficacy in the relation between social support with learning subjective well-being among rural left-behind children

Objective To explore whether coping style and learning self-efficacy mediated the relation between social support and learning subjective well-being among rural left-behind children.Methods Social Support,trait coping style,self-efficacy and learning subjective well-being was investigated among 1 618 students in grade 4-9 from Guizhou and Chongqing.Results Learning subjective well-being was positively correlated with learning self-efficacy,positive coping style and social support.There was a significant negative association between learning subjective well-being and negative coping style(P<0.01).Social support among rural left-behind children significantly correlated with learning self-efficacy(β=0.383,P<0.01),learning subjective well-being(β=0.195,SE=0.064,P<0.01) and negative coping styles(β=-0.321,P<0.01).Learning self-efficacy significantly associated with learning subjective well-being(β =0.402,P<0.01).Negative coping styles showed negative effect on learning subjective well-being(β=-0.224,P<0.01).Conclusion Negative coping style and learning self-efficacy among rural left-behind children plays a key role mediating the association between social support and learning subjective well-being.