Children and Youth Services Review
Volume 46, 2014, Pages 1-10

The psychological and behavioral outcomes of migrant and left-behind children in China (Article)

Hu H. , Lu S. , Huang C.-C.
  • a School of Humanities and Social Science, North China Electric Power University, 689 Huadian Road, Baoding, Hebei Province 071003, China
  • b School of Social Work, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 536 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States
  • c School of Social Work, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 536 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States

Abstract

With China's urbanization and its development in market economy, mass rural-to-urban migration greatly expanded over the past decades. Consequently, migrant and left-behind children have greatly increased in number. Using data from the 2011 Survey on Social Integration of Migrant Children in Wuhan, China, this study examined psychological and behavioral problems of migrant and left-behind children. Results showed that left-behind and migrant children had poorer psychological and behavioral outcomes than local children. However, the difference disappeared after controlling for family and school characteristics. The findings provided implications on improving psychological and behavioral outcomes of migrant and left-behind children through family intervention and education policy reform. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

Author Keywords

Behavioral outcome China Child development Left-behind children Migrant Children Psychological outcome

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84905910716&doi=10.1016%2fj.childyouth.2014.07.021&partnerID=40&md5=41a2350d6e53897b2b91de4eea320e3d
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.07.021
ISSN: 01907409
Cited by: 47
Original Language: English