Xia Yiwei, Ma Zhihao
School of Law, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, 611130, China.
Computational Communication Collaboratory, School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
J Affect Disord. 2020 Apr 15;267:9-16. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.02.016. Epub 2020 Feb 7.
This study investigated the underlying determinants of the relationship between social integration and three dimensions of psychological wellbeing in a nationally representative sample of emerging adult migrants in China.
Data on 6,084 migrants aged 18-29 years in the 2014 China Migrants Dynamic Survey were analyzed. A conditional process analysis tested hypotheses regarding the influence of social integration on self-rated health, life satisfaction, and mental illness. Perceived stress was tested as a mediator, and the locus of control was tested as a moderator.
Social integration negatively related to mental illness (β= -0.10, p < 0.001), and it positively related to self-rated health (β = 0.24, p < 0.001) and life satisfaction (β = 0.14, p < 0.001). Perceived stress had significant mediating effects on the influence of social integration on the dimensions of psychological wellbeing. The locus of control not only moderated the influence of social integration on perceived stress (β = -0.02, p < 0.05), it moderated the influence of perceived stress on the mental illness dimension of psychological wellbeing (β = -0.03, p < 0.001).
The cross-sectional design impeded the ability to draw causal inferences.
Social integration was a key predictor of psychological wellbeing among emerging adult migrants in China. Perceived stress significantly mediated that relationship. The locus of control moderated the indirect effect of social integration on psychological wellbeing by weakening the buffering effect of social integration on perceived stress. Furthermore, the locus of control also buffered the negative effects of perceived stress.
本研究在中国具有全国代表性的青年移民样本中，调查了社会融合与心理健康三个维度之间关系的潜在决定因素。
分析了2014年中国流动人口动态监测调查中6084名18 - 29岁移民的数据。采用条件过程分析检验关于社会融合对自评健康、生活满意度和精神疾病影响的假设。将感知压力作为中介变量进行检验，将控制点作为调节变量进行检验。
社会融合与精神疾病呈负相关（β = -0.10，p < 0.001），与自评健康呈正相关（β = 0.24，p < 0.001）以及与生活满意度呈正相关（β = 0.14，p < 0.001）。感知压力在社会融合对心理健康维度的影响中具有显著的中介作用。控制点不仅调节了社会融合对感知压力的影响（β = -0.02，p < 0.05），还调节了感知压力对心理健康精神疾病维度的影响（β = -0.03，p < 0.001）。
横断面设计妨碍了进行因果推断的能力。
社会融合是中国青年移民心理健康的关键预测因素。感知压力显著介导了这种关系。控制点通过削弱社会融合对感知压力的缓冲作用，调节了社会融合对心理健康的间接影响。此外，控制点还缓冲了感知压力的负面影响。
