Subjective well‐being amongst migrant children in China: unravelling the roles of social support and identity integration

Abstract

These results highlight the need for policymakers and practitioners alike to address individual factors pertaining to psychological adjustments, as well as social determinants of subjective wellbeing in the context of migration.

Better educational inclusion of migrant children in urban schools? Exploring the influences of the population control policy in large Chinese cities

“…The results of the study indicate that migrant students generally feel included in urban schools, a result replicated in other studies; for example, urban inclusive schools were found to provide a relatively tolerant atmosphere for migrant children (Ni, Chui, Ji, Jorda, & Chan, ; Yuan, Fang, Liu, Hou, & Lin, ). In addition, inclusive schoolteachers have been found to have relatively positive attitudes and practices toward educational inclusion for migrant children (Liu, Holmes, & Albright, ).…”

Family socioeconomic status and emotional adaptation among rural‐to‐urban migrant adolescents in China: The moderating roles of adolescent's resilience and parental positive emotion

“…To avoid null and void answers, we adopted anonymous reporting and promised to keep their response secret. In addition, the reliability of parental reports on family income in China was confirmed in large‐scale empirical studies (Huang et al, ; Li, Hou, et al, ; Li, Xu, et al, ; Ni et al, ).The distribution of family monthly income was positively skewed (skewness = 6.84, kurtosis = 70.20), so we log‐transformed the data before performing the analyses in this study (Johnson et al, ).…”

“…Second, a series of hierarchical regression analyses was performed to examine the moderating effects of PE and adolescents' resilience in the relationships between family SES and the three indices of emotional adaptation. In the first regression step, adolescents' gender, age and length of residence in the city were entered as covariates, as previous literature has suggested that these three variables might be effective predictors of emotional adaptation (Ni et al, ; Wang & Mesman, ). In the second step, family SES, PE and adolescents' resilience were added as the main predictors.…”

“…In India, rural‐to‐urban migrant adolescents were found to be exposed to the health hazards because of poverty (Srivastava & Sasikumar, ). Furthermore, migrant adolescents' family SES is significantly correlated with emotional outcomes, such as subjective wellbeing (Ni et al, ), mental health (Yang & Guo, ) and self‐esteem (Shen et al, ). A latest review found that migration status and low family SES are critical risk factors for their mental health in European countries (Belhadj et al, ).…”

“…The Hukou system is directly linked with many socioeconomic and political functions in China. The distribution of those resources within a certain administrative-geographical area is one of the important functions (Ni, Chui, Ji, Jordan, & Chan, 2016;Ye et al, 2016). Although migrant families live in the urban area, they are still denoted as rural Hukou.…”