Parental Absence Accompanies Worse Academic Achievements: Evidence Based upon a Sample of Left-Behind Children in Rural China
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1 School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, 2 Teaching & Learning Centre, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore, Singapore, 3 School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, 4 Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 5 Co-innovation Center of Neuroregeneration, Nantong University, Nantong, China, 6 State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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