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The left-behind elderly not only suffer physiological obstacles such as body function decline, but also face a lack of support at the material level and loneliness at the spiritual level, which greatly affects their quality of life, accounting for their lower life satisfaction than that of the ordinary elderly. The rural areas of Sichuan Province are relatively backwards in terms of economic level and have limited pension security. Therefore, the left-behind elderly in rural areas are confronted with more complicated and severe pension problems compared with those in urban areas. Meanwhile, limited by economic and regional factors, a large number of rural labor forces in Sichuan Province have transferred to cities. These long-time migrant workers cannot provide material, spiritual and life care support for their left-behind parents in rural areas in a timely fashion, which changes their filial piety behaviors, and this affects the life satisfaction of the rural left-behind elderly. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the living conditions of empty-nest elderly and their children\u2019s filial piety in rural areas of Sichuan province in order to verify the influence mechanism of filial piety on the life satisfaction of the elderly, and to explore how to improve the rural empty-nest elderly\u2019s life satisfaction, enabling the elderly to live a healthy and happy life.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph19084658","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,12]],"date-time":"2022-04-12T21:15:35Z","timestamp":1649798135000},"page":"4658","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Children\u2019s Filial Piety Changes Life Satisfaction of the Left-Behind Elderly in Rural Areas in China?"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Yaling","family":"Luo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiling","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8434-7401","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Liao","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Politics and Public Administration, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongmei","family":"Zou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Xinyu Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang 330000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lulu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"636","article-title":"Relationship of elderly loneliness, filial expectations, and intergenerational social support","volume":"17","author":"Liu","year":"2009","journal-title":"Chin. 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