What Matters on Rural Left-Behind Children’s Problem Behavior: Family Socioeconomic Status or Perceived Discrimination

Wangqian Fu (), Rui Xue, Hongqin Chai, Wenxiang Sun and Fangrui Jiang
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Wangqian Fu: Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Rui Xue: School of Education, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100091, China
Hongqin Chai: School of Education, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100091, China
Wenxiang Sun: Social Science Division, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Fangrui Jiang: Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: With the acceleration of China’s industrialization and urbanization, there is a large number of left-behind children in China who are reported with more challenges in development. The study aims to analyze the differences in family socioeconomic status (SES) and discrimination perception between left-behind children and non-left-behind children and further explore whether SES or discrimination perception has a greater impact on the problem behaviors of left-behind children. We found the family SES of left-behind children was significantly lower than that of non-left-behind children; left-behind children’s perceived discrimination was significantly higher than that of non-left-behind children; perceived discrimination of left-behind children had a greater impact on their problem behavior than the family SES.

Keywords: left-behind children; problem behavior; family socioeconomic status; perceived discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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