A questionnaire survey was conducted on 211 rural Tibetan boarding elementary school students to explore the effects of ethnic identity and school belonging on elementary school students' problems behaviors, and a mediating effect test was conducted based on school belonging as a way to construct a model of the relationship between the three, and to investigate the mechanisms for promoting the psychological health of rural boarding elementary school students in ethnic areas.The results found that (1)Ethnic identity, school belonging, and problems behaviors of primary school students in rural boarding schools in Tibet is better than the median of theory. (2) Externalizing problems were bilaterally correlated to ethnic identity and school belonging while internalizing behavior only correlated to school belonging. (3)Ethnic identity influences externalizing behaviors through school belonging. It was concluded that school belonging mediated the role of ethnic identity in influencing externalizing behaviors of elementary school students.

Chunni Zhao, Xini Zhao. The influence of Ethnic Identity on students' Problem Behaviors in Rural Tibet Elementary Boarding School: the mediating role of School Belonging. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2022) Vol. 5, Issue 15: 103-108. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2022.051513.

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