Zhang Jintao, Li Xiaoming, Fang Xiaoyi, Xiong Qing
Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
Qual Life Res. 2009 Apr;18(3):291-300. doi: 10.1007/s11136-009-9454-6. Epub 2009 Feb 19.
To examine the effect of expectation-reality discrepancy in mediating the relationship between discrimination experience and quality of life (QOL) among rural-to-urban migrants in China.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1,006 rural-to-urban migrants in 2004-2005 in Beijing, China. QOL was measured using the Chinese version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF). The migrants were also asked to report their experience of being discriminated against in the urban areas (i.e., discrimination experience), and their perceived difference between premigratory expectation and postmigratory reality in the city (i.e., expectation-reality discrepancy). Structural equation modeling (SEM) method was employed to assess the mediation effect.
Discrimination experience not only had a direct significant negative effect on QOL among rural-to-urban migrants, but also had an indirect effect through expectation-reality discrepancy on their QOL. Migrants' expectation-reality discrepancy exerted a partially mediation effect in the relationship between discrimination experience and QOL.
Health promotion and prevention programs in the future to improve migrants' QOL should pay more attention to reducing the discrimination against migrants as well as helping migrants to reduce discrepancy between premigratory expectation and postmigratory reality.
探讨期望与现实差异在中国农村进城务工人员歧视经历与生活质量（QOL）关系中的中介作用。
2004 - 2005年在中国北京对1006名农村进城务工人员进行了横断面调查。生活质量采用中文版世界卫生组织生活质量简表（WHOQOL - BREF）进行测量。还询问了务工人员在城市中遭受歧视的经历（即歧视经历），以及他们对进城前期望与进城后现实之间差异的感知（即期望 - 现实差异）。采用结构方程模型（SEM）方法评估中介效应。
歧视经历不仅对农村进城务工人员的生活质量有直接显著的负面影响，还通过期望 - 现实差异对其生活质量产生间接影响。务工人员的期望 - 现实差异在歧视经历与生活质量的关系中发挥了部分中介作用。
未来旨在提高务工人员生活质量的健康促进和预防项目应更加关注减少对务工人员的歧视，以及帮助务工人员缩小进城前期望与进城后现实之间的差距。
