Cumulative Risk and Subjective Well-Being Among Rural-to-Urban Migrant Adolescents in China: Differential Moderating Rol
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Cumulative Risk and Subjective Well‑Being Among Rural‑to‑Urban Migrant Adolescents in China: Differential Moderating Roles of Stress Mindset and Resilience Ying Jiang1 · Hua Ming1 · Yuan Tian1 · Silin Huang1 · Ling Sun2 · Hui‑jie Li3 · Hongchuan Zhang2
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Abstract Migrant adolescents are exposed to a variety of risk factors that threaten their well-being. However, previous studies have often focused on one or several factors separately, ignoring the cumulative effect of risks. The current study adopted the cumulative risk (CR) model and examined the deleterious effect of CR on the three indices of subjective wellbeing (SWB) among early migrant adolescents in China. We further explored the moderating role of resilience and stress mindset on the above associations. A sample of 234 early migrant adolescents (45.7% girls) completed self-reported questionnaires in two waves (2016–2017), and the mean age of valid participants was 11.49 years (SD = 1.16) at T1. The multiple regression results indicated that CR negatively predicted adolescents’ life satisfaction one year later. Moreover, high resilience and a more stress-is-enhancing mindset buffered the deleterious effect of CR on the emotional components of SWB. Specifically, the negative effect of CR on positive affect was reduced as resilience increased, whereas the adverse effect of CR on negative affect was attenuated by holding a more stress-isenhancing mindset. The present findings suggest that CR is a useful predictor for multiple risk factors to which migrant adolescents are exposed and that it has a robust effect on later SWB. These findings also contribute to a better understanding of the moderating roles of resilience and stress mindset to aid future intervention programs. Keywords Cumulative risk · Subjective well-being · Stress mindset · Resilience · Chinese rural-to-urban migrant adolescents
1 Introduction The late 1970s witnessed a massive trend toward migration in China, with millions of migrant workers moving from rural to urban areas for better jobs and living conditions. The 2010 population census reported 261 million migrants, which was an increase of 81.03% from the previous census a decade prior (National Bureau of Statistics of China * Silin Huang [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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2011). In recent years, an increasing number of migrant parents have brought their children when relocating to host cities. For example, in 2015, 173,000 (33.72%) migrant children above school-age migrated to Beijing with their parents for more than 6 months (Zhao and Wei 2017). This migration allows migrant children a better education and living conditions. However, it also introduces some difficulties. Due to the restriction of the Household Registration System (i.e., Hukou), rural-to-urban migrant families are still regarded as rural residents who are temporarily residing in a host city. In China, Hukou is a particular administrative-geographi
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