Abstract
At present, income and welfare inequality between migrant workers and urban natives has improved in China, but there are still many “semi-urbanized” migrant workers, whose psychological integration into the migrant city is very important for their mental health. By using a second stage conditional process model to decompose the effect of income on psychological integration into direct and indirect effects, this study explores the different psychological integration paths of migrant workers in different migration ranges, based on the data of the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS). The results show that the total effect of income on psychological integration is positive, and the value of inter-provincial samples is twice that of full samples. There is a significant difference in psychological integration paths between inter-provincial and intra-provincial samples, and when social comparison acts as a mediator, income has no direct effect on psychological integration of intra-provincial samples, while the direct and indirect effects of inter-provincial samples account for half of each other. Perceived discrimination played a reversed moderated role in the effect of social comparison on psychological integration, i.e., the lower the degree of perceived discrimination, the stronger the positive effect of social comparison on psychological integration, and vice versa. Therefore, according to the actual needs of different groups, relevant policies should be gradually adjusted to improve the psychological integration of migrant workers, thus contributing to their mental health.
Highlights
Accepted: 29 October 2021With the development of industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of urban boundaries and the cross-regional migration of population have become a normal status
The results show that income has a significant positive total effect on psychological belonging, and the total effect value (0.047) of inter-provincial migration model is about twice that of the full-sample model (0.022), indicating that total effect of income of inter-provincial migrant worker samples on psychological integration is twice that of the full samples
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Summary
Accepted: 29 October 2021With the development of industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of urban boundaries and the cross-regional migration of population have become a normal status. By the end of 2020, there were 285.6 million migrant workers in China, of which 169.59 million had left the local area [1]. They provide abundant labor resources for cities and promote the development of the urban economy. Different scholars divide social integration into different dimensions, but generally speaking, it includes economic, social, cultural, and psychological dimensions [5,6]. The progressive process of dimensions usually starts with the integration of economic dimension and deepens to the psychological dimension. The psychological integration process of migrant workers is essentially the transmission of social integration from the economic dimension to the psychological dimension.
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