College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 30;18(15):8085. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18158085.
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of parental migration on the psychological well-being of children using ordered probit models based on a survey conducted among 1680 primary school students and their parents in Majiang County, Guizhou Province, China in 2020. The findings are as follows. First, compared with having no migrant parents, having two migrant parents significantly reduces the psychological well-being of children and having one migrant parent has no significant effect. Second, mediation analysis shows that parental migration reduces child depression by increasing household absolute and relative incomes. It also increases depression and reduces the subjective happiness of children by reducing parental discipline. However, it has no significant impact on parent-child interactions. Third, by dividing the sample by absolute and relative poverty, we find that the effect of parental migration on the psychological well-being of children varies with household economic conditions. Comparatively speaking, children from poor households are more affected by parental migration in terms of depression, whereas children from non-poor households are more affected by parental migration in terms of subjective happiness. This paper examines the transmission mechanism between parental migration and the psychological well-being of children, provides a perspective of household economic conditions for child psychology and offers useful insights for family education and government policymaking in this area.
本文使用Ordered Probit 模型，基于 2020 年在中国贵州省麻江县对 1680 名小学生及其父母进行的调查，实证分析了父母迁移对儿童心理健康的影响。研究结果如下：第一，与父母均未迁移相比，父母双方均迁移显著降低了儿童的心理健康水平，而父母一方迁移则没有显著影响。第二，中介效应分析表明，父母迁移通过提高家庭绝对和相对收入水平来降低儿童的抑郁水平，但通过降低父母管教来增加抑郁水平和降低儿童的主观幸福感。然而，父母迁移对亲子互动没有显著影响。第三，通过按绝对贫困和相对贫困划分样本，我们发现父母迁移对儿童心理健康的影响因家庭经济条件而异。相对而言，贫困家庭的儿童受父母迁移影响在抑郁方面更为明显，而非贫困家庭的儿童受父母迁移影响在主观幸福感方面更为明显。本文探讨了父母迁移与儿童心理健康之间的传递机制，从家庭经济条件的角度为儿童心理学提供了一个视角，并为该领域的家庭教育和政府决策提供了有用的见解。
