Research on Social Integration Structure and Path of Floating Population Based on Structural Equation Model: Evidence from China

Hanlei Shen () and Lun Xia ()
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Hanlei Shen: Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Lun Xia: Hubei University of Economics

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2023, vol. 165, issue 2, No 10, 607-632

Abstract: Abstract The social integration of the floating population is related to the quality of urbanization. Based on the China Migrants Dynamic Survey in 2017, a five-dimensional index system of physiological adaptation, economic integration, social adaptation, identity, and psychological integration is constructed to explore the floating population's social integration structure and path. The results show a close relationship between the floating population's five dimensions of social integration. Physical integration is the basis of survival, psychological integration is the highest level of integration, and economic integration is necessary for social integration. Economic integration can directly affect psychological integration and indirectly through social adaptation or identity path. In addition, economic integration first through a social adaptation intermediary and then through an identity intermediary to influence psychological integration remotely; by comparing the social integration status of the floating population and local residents, it is found that there is no significant difference between floating population and local residents only in physiological adaptation; in the high-level social integration dimension, there is a significant difference between floating population and local residents, and the floating population is not fully integrated into the local area, The phenomenon of “pseudo integration” exists in the social integration of floating population. The direction of urbanization development should be changed from quantity target to quality target.

Keywords: Structural equation model; Floating population; Social integration; Intermediary effect; Pseudo integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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