Social capital and the mental health of children in rural China with different experiences of parental migration

Qiaobing Wu, Deping Lu and Mi Kang

Social Science & Medicine, 2015, vol. 132, issue C, 270-277

Abstract: Children migrating to urban cities with their parents and children left behind in rural counties by their migrant parents are two vulnerable populations resulting from the rural–urban migration in mainland China. Some of these children even have mixed experiences of being left-behind and being migrants at different times. This study aimed to investigate how the various experiences of being left-behind, migrant, or both, might influence the mental health of children in the context of rural China. Moreover, it investigated how these effects might be mediated by the stock of social capital in their family and neighborhood.

Keywords: China; Social capital; Mental health; Children; Left-behind; Migrant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.050

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