School of Sociology and Population Sciences, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.
College of Philosophy, Law and Political Science, Shanghai Normal University, China.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2023 Sep;69(6):1420-1431. doi: 10.1177/00207640231164014. Epub 2023 Apr 7.
Prior studies on migrant workers have explored the effect of their subjective social status and job satisfaction on their mental health, respectively or combined, as well as how their subjective social status affects their job satisfaction. Nonetheless, few have accounted straightforwardly and holistically for the mechanism of interaction between subjective social status, job satisfaction and mental health amongst migrant workers.
Taking migrant workers in China as the object of study, we intended to probe the longitudinal links between their subjective social status, job satisfaction and mental health, in particular, their job satisfaction as a longitudinal mediator therein.
Using the three-wave data from the 2014, 2016 and 2018 China Labour-force Dynamics Survey, we defined migrant workers as labourers aged 15 to 64 with agricultural and engaged in non-agricultural work in urban areas. The final valid sample comprised 2,035 individuals. Latent growth models (LGMs) were applied to test the hypothesised relationships.
The LGMs based on bootstrapping showed that amongst migrant workers the subjective social status, job satisfaction and mental health tended overall to grow linearly and that the job satisfaction longitudinally mediated between the subjective social status and mental health.
The findings may enlighten policymaking to elevate migrant workers mentally and inform future studies on theoretical and practical fronts.
先前关于农民工的研究分别探讨了他们的主观社会地位和工作满意度对其心理健康的影响，以及他们的主观社会地位如何影响他们的工作满意度。然而，很少有研究直接而全面地考虑农民工主观社会地位、工作满意度和心理健康之间的相互作用机制。
以中国农民工为研究对象，探讨农民工主观社会地位、工作满意度和心理健康之间的纵向联系，特别是工作满意度在其中的纵向中介作用。
利用 2014、2016 和 2018 年中国劳动力动态调查的三波数据，我们将年龄在 15 至 64 岁之间、具有农业户口且在城市从事非农工作的劳动者定义为农民工。最终的有效样本包括 2035 人。采用潜在增长模型（LGM）检验假设关系。
基于自举法的 LGM 显示，农民工的主观社会地位、工作满意度和心理健康总体上呈线性增长趋势，工作满意度在主观社会地位和心理健康之间存在纵向中介作用。
这些发现可能为提升农民工心理健康的政策制定提供启示，并为理论和实践前沿的未来研究提供信息。
