Abstract
With the increasing urbanization in China, the mental health problems of migrant children have attracted widespread attention. From the perspective of social cognition, psychological capital, self-esteem, and other factors are closely related to the social and cultural adaptation of the group. In order to explore the relationship among the psychological capital, self-esteem and socio-cultural adaptations of migrant children, a total of 245 Chinese migrant children were investigated with the psychological capital scale, self-esteem scale, and socio-cultural adaptation scale. At the same time, 24 months group longitudinal intervention exercises was designed scientifically, the participants were provided with it continuously to enhance their psychological capital. According to the results, there were significant differences in t-test in experiment group and control group of migrant children. At the same time, there was a significant linear correlation between predictive variables’ psychological capital and self-esteem and outcome variable’s socio-cultural adaptation. In the next step of mediating effect analysis, psychological capital and self-esteem were adopted for predicting socio-cultural adaptation. The psychological capital could not only directly affect the social and cultural adaptation of migrant children, but also indirectly affect the degree of social and cultural adaptation of migrant children through changing self-esteem. The results showed that the self-esteem mediation model fitted well with the data. Furthermore, the mediation effect accounted for 17.3% in the direct effect. Longitudinal group intervention could improve the psychological capital and social and cultural adaptation of migrant children. In a word, the research was helpful to explore the influence mechanism of migrant children’s psychological capital on social and cultural adaptation, and had certain practical value in preventing and reducing the crisis caused by the social and cultural adaptation of migrant children.
Highlights
With the increasing urbanization in China, more and more migrant children move into cities with their families, starting a long and difficult process of social and cultural adaptation
When exploring the relationship among self-esteem, school adaptation and sense of belonging of migrant children, we found that self-esteem of migrant children played a mediating role between school adaptation and sense of belonging (Peng et al, 2012)
In order to better explore the effect of vertical group intervention to enhance psychological capital, the study first conducted a questionnaire survey on social and cultural adaptation, psychological capital and self-esteem of migrant children before intervention, and used it as a benchmark score for comparison
Summary
With the increasing urbanization in China, more and more migrant children move into cities with their families, starting a long and difficult process of social and cultural adaptation. American scholar Rudmin (2009) defined acculturation as a psychological change caused by imitating the behavior of foreign culturists in a new culture defined. He believed that this concept consisted of many changes in personal behavior, attitude and mental health in the process of cultural adaptation. There was an increasing number of the empirical and theoretical researches about cultural adaptation. It broke through the model of studying cultural adaptation at the group level, and expanded the study on the cultural adaptation, including the cross-cultural
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