Depressive symptoms and negative life events: What psycho-social factors protect or harm left-behind children in China?

Table 3 ANOVAs on depressive symptoms of LBC using type of parental migration and NLES as factors (N = 4181)

Independent variables	SS	df	MS	F^a	η ²
Type of parental migration^b (A)	304.46	2.00	152.23	4.18^*	0.002
NLES level^c(B)	5325.04	2.00	2662.52	73.11^***	0.034
A × B	64.04	4.00	16.01	0.44	0.000
Error	151,939.81	4172.00	36.42

Note: The dependent variable was depressive symptom
NLES negative-life-event-induced stress, SS sum of square, df degree of freedom, MS mean square
^* p < 0.05, ^*** p < 0.001
^aF value was from factorial ANOVA results
^bFor the variable parental migration type, 1 = migrant father, 2 = migrant mother, 3 = migrant parents
^cFor the variable NLES, 1 = low, 2 = median, 3 = high

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