Guangzhou University.
University of Macau.
Child Dev. 2019 Jul;90(4):1016-1026. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13253. Epub 2019 May 9.
Economic inequality has been found to be detrimental to psychological well-being. However, previous studies were mostly based on cross-sectional data, drew exclusively on adults, and confined to Western developed countries. To address these shortcomings, the current study investigated the longitudinal association of income inequality with adolescent psychological well-being in a non-Western developing economy (i.e., China). We used the China Family Panel Studies data set with a representative sample of 3,042 adolescents (M = 12.59) from 20 provinces in China. Analyses showed that adolescents in more unequal provinces had lower happiness and more psychological distress. The associations between economic inequality and well-being varied across adolescents from different socioeconomic strata.
经济不平等被发现对心理健康有害。然而，以前的研究大多基于横截面数据，仅针对成年人，且仅限于西方发达国家。为了解决这些不足，本研究在中国这一非西方发展中经济体中调查了收入不平等与青少年心理健康的纵向关联。我们使用了中国家庭追踪调查数据集，该数据集来自中国 20 个省份的 3042 名青少年（M=12.59）的代表性样本。分析表明，处于不平等程度更高省份的青少年幸福感更低，心理困扰更多。经济不平等与幸福感之间的关联因来自不同社会经济阶层的青少年而有所不同。
