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

doi:10.1177/1745691615600145

	Child Development in the Face of Rural-to-Urban Migration in China: A Meta-Analytic Review
	Wang, Lamei1,2 ; Mesman, Judi 3
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.
关键词	China child development family literature review meta-analysis culture migration
	2015-11-01
语种	英语
DOI	10.1177/1745691615600145
发表期刊	PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
ISSN	1745-6916
卷号	10 期号:6 页码:813-831
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SSCI
WOS关键词	LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN ; MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER ; ETHNIC-MINORITY FAMILIES ; MIGRANT CHILDREN ; PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT ; MENTAL-HEALTH ; ECONOMIC TRANSITION ; PROBLEM BEHAVIOR ; LABOR MIGRATION ; SELF-ESTEEM
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
WOS研究方向	Psychology
WOS类目	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000365583400018
引用统计	被引频次：168[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/15362
专题	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
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
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.

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