Psychological Development and Education ›› 2011, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (6): 654-661.

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The Effect of Perceived Discrimination on Collective Well-being among Migrant Children in China

XING Shu-fen1, LIU Xia2, ZHAO Jing-xin3, SHI Bao-guo1   

  1. 1. Beijing key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, Department of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048;
    2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    3. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014
  • Online:2011-11-15 Published:2011-11-15

Abstract: With the growth of Chinese migrant children,it has been an important research problem to explore migrant children's psychological characteristics and its internal mechanism,especially for their perception of discrimination.Compared with the children in the research on ethnic discrimination,gender discrimination etc,one of the unique qualities of Chinese migrant children is that their group membership is concealable and can be changed.This quality provides a good opportunity to investigate the generality and specificity of children's perceived discrimination from different background.The present study was aimed to examine the relationship between perceived academic and social discrimination and collective well-being among Chinese migrant children in Beijing, and to investigate the Effect of emotional identity,cognitive identity,and perceived group status on those relationships.1350 elementary and Junior Middle School students were recruited to complete a self-report assessment on testing the perceived academic and social discrimination,collective well-being,group identity,and the perceived group status.The results indicated that perceived academic discrimination had significantly negative effects on the group well-being of migrant children.Perceived discrimination from social context also had significantly negative effects on the group well-being of migrant children,but its contribution was small than that of perceived academic discrimination.Moreover,Perceived academic discrimination only had indirect effect on group well-being via the mediation effect of migrant children's emotional identity and perceived group status,perceived discrimination from social context both had the direct effect and had the indirect effect via the mediation effect of perceived group status.These findings suggested that more attention should be paid to the intervention of migrant children's perceived academic discrimination,to reduce their perception of discrimination,change their coping and enhance their collective well-being.

Key words: migrant children, collective well-being, perceived group status, group identity

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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