International Journal of Psychology
Volume 54, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 573-581

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 (Article)

Huang S.* , Han M. , Sun L. , Zhang H. , Li H.-J.
  • a Institute of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  • b School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
  • c School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
  • d School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
  • e CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China, Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract

Low family socioeconomic status (SES) is closely related to increased risk of emotional maladaptation among adolescents. Although previous studies have found that low family SES is a significant and common experience for most rural-to-urban migrant adolescents in China, little research has examined the association between family SES and emotional adaptation or identified the protective factors that may minimise emotional maladaptation among these adolescents. The present study examined the associations between family SES and three indices of emotional adaptation (emotion regulation, life satisfaction and depression) and the moderating effects of adolescents' resilience and parental positive emotion (PE) among 486 Chinese rural-to-urban migrant adolescents. The results suggest that family SES was significantly associated with migrant adolescents' emotional outcomes, to varying degrees. Moreover, both adolescents' resilience and PE moderated the associations between family SES and emotional outcomes, although the protective effects of the two moderators differed on the three emotional outcomes. These findings shed light into designing intervention and prevention programs to reduce emotional maladaptation among migrant adolescents. © 2018 International Union of Psychological Science

Author Keywords

Socioeconomic status Parental positive emotion Resilience Emotional adaptation Chinese rural-to-urban migrant adolescent

Index Keywords

Parents urban population China physiology human rural population Emotional Adjustment social status migrant psychology Humans life satisfaction Adolescent male female Article psychological adjustment emotionality human experiment migration Transients and Migrants social class child parent relation Child
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85067439863&doi=10.1002%2fijop.12499&partnerID=40&md5=2fcba4a1ff9fe5af2d6b51ad54e3be44
DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12499
ISSN: 00207594
Cited by: 1
Original Language: English