Abstract
Using survey data of middle school students from Ye county in Henan province and Chenggu and Ningqiang county in Shaanxi province, China, adopting latent class analysis and hierarchical linear regression, this study analyzes the impact of parental remote migration and parent-child relation types on the psychological resilience of rural left-behind children. The results show that: Only mother’s remote migration has a significantly negative impact on the psychological resilience of rural left-behind children, the time of parental first migration, the distance of father’s migration, and children’s migration have no significant impacts; parent-child relation of “alienation connection and weak function” or parent-child relation combination of “parental alienation connection and weak function” is the most unfavorable factor for the psychological resilience of rural left-behind children, while father-child relation of “close connection but lacking function”, mother-child relation of “intimate connection and strong function”, and combination of “paternal close connection but lacking function - maternal intimate connection and strong function” are the most favorable factors. There is gender difference in the impact of father-child relation types and mother-child relation types, the impact of father-child relation types is stronger than that of mother-child relation types; harmonious parental relation, supportive friends, caring teachers, and moderate home-school interaction are favorable for the psychological resilience of rural left-behind children.
Highlights
With rapid urbanization in China, the scale of migrant workers has been increasing
Restricted by institutional and economic factors, it is hard for migrant workers to bring their children to cities where they work, which creates a large group of left-behind children in rural China
This study aims to explore the impact of parental remote migration and parent-child relation on the psychological resilience of left-behind children
Summary
With rapid urbanization in China, the scale of migrant workers has been increasing. It was estimated that China’s migrant workers might reach 307 million in 2025 and 327 million in 2030 [1].Large-scale population migration has become a social phenomenon worthy of attention. With rapid urbanization in China, the scale of migrant workers has been increasing. It was estimated that China’s migrant workers might reach 307 million in 2025 and 327 million in 2030 [1]. Large-scale population migration has become a social phenomenon worthy of attention. Restricted by institutional and economic factors, it is hard for migrant workers to bring their children to cities where they work, which creates a large group of left-behind children in rural China. Ministry of Civil Affairs, left-behind children are minors whose both parents have gone to cities for work, or one parent has gone to cities for work while the other has no guardianship ability, and in 2018, there were still 6.97 million left-behind children in rural China [2].
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