Community social capital, migration status, and Chinese rural children's psychosocial development

Tian, Felicia F., Jing, Yongchao and Liu, Jingming 2023. Community social capital, migration status, and Chinese rural children's psychosocial development. Journal of Community Psychology 51 (2) , pp. 605-625. 10.1002/jcop.22770

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Abstract

Migration's impact on Chinese rural children's psychosocial development is the subject of growing research attention. While scholars highlight the critical role of social support, they have yet to systematically examine whether and how community social capital, which provides proximal social support for families, affects rural children's psychosocial development as well as whether such associations vary by children's migration status. Using data from the child component of the 2012 Chinese Urbanization and Labor Migration Survey, this article shows that community social capital reduces children's behavioral and emotional problems; however, left-behind children and migrant children gain less from community social capital than children with at-home parents. In addition, left-behind girls fare worse and gain less from community social capital than left-behind boys. Together, these findings imply that community social capital reinforces the disadvantaged psychosocial development of rural children who experience parental migration and evidence the enduring gender inequality in rural China.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0090-4392
Date of Acceptance:	23 November 2021
Last Modified:	21 Mar 2024 10:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/167011

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