Background: With the acceleration of urbanization, the number of migrant children has risen sharply. How to improve the positive psychological adaptability of migrant children and ensure their physical and mental health has become an urgent social problem to be solved. Objective: To investigate the current situation of migrant children's positive psychological adaptation and analyze its influencing factors, and to provide a theoretical basis for migrant children's mental health management countermeasures, so as to improve the positive psychological adaptability of migrant children. Methods: In this study, a cross-sectional survey and random sampling method were used to conduct a questionnaire survey on 200 middle school students who met the definition of migrant children in 3 middle schools in Sichuan Province using the 'Adolescence Mental Health Diathsis Questionnaire' adaptation subscale. Results: This study found that girls were significantly higher than boys in emotional adaptation, boys were significantly higher than girls in interpersonal adaptation, and boys were significantly higher than girls in social adaptation. There was no gender difference in other factors in general. Conclusion: There were gender differences in positive psychological adaptation among migrant children. Front-line educators, social service workers, and relevant government departments should pay more attention to the gender differences in the positive psychological adaptation of migrant children, to improve the positive psychological adaptation ability of migrant children.
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