Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5): 587-594.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.05.09

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The Relation between Perceived Discrimination and Migrant Children's School Adaptation: A Longitudinal Study

ZHANG Guangzhen, JIANG Ning, LIANG Zongbao, DENG Huihua   

  1. Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science, Ministry of Education/Institute of Child Development and Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096
  • Online:2016-09-15 Published:2016-09-15

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Abstract: The present study examined the bi-directional relations between perceived discrimination and migrant children's school adaptation, and whether the relation varied with gender, with longitudinal design and multiple informants. Two hundred and eighty-one children (157 boys and 124 girls) and their parents and teachers participated in the study. When children were in grade 7 (Mage=13.09 years,SD=1.13)(T1) and grade 8 (T2), they were asked to report their perceived discrimination, and teachers and parents were respectively asked to report children's problem behaviors. The results indicated that: (1) boys perceived more discrimination and had more externalizing and learning problems than girls at both T1 and T2, however, they did not differ in internalizing problems; (2) children's perceived discrimination at T1 positively predicted teacher-reported externalizing and learning problems, and parent-reported internalizing problems at T2, and marginally significantly positively predicted parent-reported externalizing and learning problems at T2, whereas the prediction from children's school adaptation at T1 to children's perceived discrimination at T2 was nonsignificant; (3) the relation between perceived discrimination and migrant children's problem behaviors did not vary with gender. These results indicated that perceived discrimination was generally detrimental to migrant children's adjustment.

Key words: migrant children, perceived discrimination, externalizing problem, internalizing problem, learning problem

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  • B844

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