Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (3): 369-376.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.03.14

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Perceived Discrimination and Positive/Negative Emotion of Left-Behind Children: The Protective Role of Parent-Child Cohesion

ZHAO Jingxin, YANG Ping, MA Jinling, HUANG Cuicui   

  1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014
  • Online:2016-05-15 Published:2016-05-15

Abstract: A total of 1235 left-behind children were recruited from a rural area in Shandong province, including 378 children from two-parent-migrant families and 803 children from father-migrant families. These children completed a self-report assessment on investigating relationships between perceived discrimination and children's positive/negative emotion, examining the moderating role of parent-child cohesionin the relationships, and revealing the possible gender differences. Results showed that:(1)perceived discrimination was positively associated with children's negative emotion and negatively associated with children's positive emotion; (2) higher level of children's father-child cohesion predicted lower scores of negative emotion and higher scores of positive emotion; higher level of mother-child cohesion could predicted higher scores of all children's positive emotion; (3) mother-child cohesion moderated the relationship between perceived discrimination and two-parent migrant children's positive/negative emotion:high level of mother-child cohesion could buffer the deleterious effect of perceived discrimination to positive emotion, and the intensive effect of perceived discrimination to negative emotion; (4) mother-child cohesion moderated the relationship between perceived discrimination and father migrant children's positive/negative emotion, and the moderating effect varied according to the gender.

Key words: Left-behind children, perceived discrimination, parent-child cohesion, positive/negative emotion

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