Water-absorbent resin particles

Water-absorbent resin particles comprising:

• a crosslinked polymer having a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof,
• wherein a proportion of (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof is 70 to 100 mol % with respect to a total amount of monomer units in the crosslinked polymer, and
• in a moisture retention test performed under reduced pressure by the following measurement method, a moisture retention rate after 6 hours is 55% by mass or more, and a water retention capacity for a physiological saline solution is 32 to 70 g/g,
• the measurement method being performed as follows:
• 2 g of the water-absorbent resin particles is added into 38 g of a physiological saline solution stirred at 600 rpm in a 100 ml beaker, the mixture is left to stand for 30 minutes at 25° C. from a timing when a vortex disappears, and thereby a swollen gel is prepared,
• 20 g of the swollen gel is put into a non-woven fabric tea bag of 12 cm×10 cm defined in EDANA RVSP 241.283 (12), the bag is closed to be used for an evaluation sample, and a mass is measured, and
• the evaluation sample is placed on a sieve, the sieve is placed in a vacuum dryer at 35° C. and under an internal pressure of 0.2 kPa, and a mass of the evaluation sample is measured every hour,
• amount of swollen gel (g/g)=(mass of evaluation sample (g)−mass of tare g))/dry mass of water-absorbent resin particles contained in swollen gel to be measured (g), and
• moisture retention rate (%)=(amount of swollen gel after decompression (g/g)/amount of swollen gel at initial stage (g/g))×100,