【Objective】 To investigate the rate of adversity and cumulative adversity on adolescents in the countryside and discuss the importance of paying attention to the adolescents' adversity. 【Methods】 Using the method of convenient sampling to questionnaire surveyed 1 200 adolescents living in the eastern, central and western of Shandong province; the questionnaires were consist of the demography, the adversity checklist which contains family adversity, community adversity, school adversity and personal adversity. 【Results】 The top five adolescents' adversity were the test anxiety and tension(51.7%), parents' substance abuse(37.8%), witnessed the accident(33.5%), own serious illness or injury(31.6%), and the teacher's words hurt(29.8%). The incidence of rural adolescents' cumulative adversity was 79.6% and it was significantly different by sex(χ2=4.1,P＜0.05). Only 6.6% adolescents never suffered adversity. The study also found that the adversity rate of problems with sibling, the test anxiety and tension, sexual abuse, witnessed of fire and traffic accidents were different according to sex(P＜0.05 or ＜0.01). 【Conclusions】 The adversity is common in the rural, especially the cumulative adversity. The rural adolescents' healthy living environment should be paid attention to, and measures are taken to prevent and reduce the influence of adversity on adolescents' physical and mental health development.
Key words
adolescents /
specific adversity /
cumulative adversity
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