Child Development in the Face of Rural-to-Urban Migration in China: A Meta-Analytic Review

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	Child Development in the Face of Rural-to-Urban Migration in China: A Meta-Analytic Review
	Wang, Lamei1,2 ; Mesman, Judi 3
刊名	PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
	2015-11-01
卷号	10 期号:6 页码:813-831
关键词	China child development family literature review meta-analysis culture migration
ISSN号	1745-6916
英文摘要	In the last 30 years, China has undergone one of the largest rural-to-urban migrations in human history, with many children left behind because of parental migration. We present a meta-analytic review of empirical studies on Chinese children's rural-to-urban migration and on rural children left behind because of parental migration. We examine how these events relate to children's emotional, social, and academic developmental outcomes. We include publications in English and in Chinese to uncover and quantify a part of the research literature that has been inaccessible to most Western scholars in the field of child and family studies. Overall, both migrant children and children left behind by migrant parents in China show significantly less favorable functioning across domains than other Chinese children. It appears that, similar to processes found in other parts of the world, the experience of economic and acculturation stress as well as disrupted parent-child relations constitute a risk for nonoptimal child functioning in the Chinese context. Further, we found evidence for publication bias against studies showing less favorable development for migrant children and children left behind. We discuss the results in terms of challenges to Chinese society and to future empirical research on Chinese family life.
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
类目[WOS]	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
研究领域[WOS]	Psychology
关键词[WOS]	LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN ; MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER ; ETHNIC-MINORITY FAMILIES ; MIGRANT CHILDREN ; PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT ; MENTAL-HEALTH ; ECONOMIC TRANSITION ; PROBLEM BEHAVIOR ; LABOR MIGRATION ; SELF-ESTEEM
收录类别	SSCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000365583400018
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/15362]
专题	心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Hong Kong, Dept Psychol, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 3.Leiden Univ, Ctr Child & Family Studies, Leiden, Netherlands
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Lamei,Mesman, Judi. Child Development in the Face of Rural-to-Urban Migration in China: A Meta-Analytic Review[J]. PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE,2015,10(6):813-831.
APA	Wang, Lamei,&Mesman, Judi.(2015).Child Development in the Face of Rural-to-Urban Migration in China: A Meta-Analytic Review.PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE,10(6),813-831.
MLA	Wang, Lamei,et al."Child Development in the Face of Rural-to-Urban Migration in China: A Meta-Analytic Review".PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 10.6(2015):813-831.