PMID- 25176335
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160112
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1873-5347 (Electronic)
IS  - 0277-9536 (Print)
IS  - 0277-9536 (Linking)
VI  - 132
DP  - 2015 May
TI  - Positive youth development in rural China: the role of parental migration.
PG  - 261-9
LID - S0277-9536(14)00491-2 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.051 [doi]
AB  - This study examined how parental rural-to-urban migration may affect left-behind 
      children's development in rural China. We used two-wave data collected on 864 
      rural youth age 10-17 years in the Guangxi Province, China in 2010. We tested 
      psychometric properties of a positive youth development (PYD) model theorized and 
      corroborated in the US, compared a range of developmental outcomes among rural 
      youth by their parental migration status, and explored the mediating role of 
      family economic and social resources in observed associations between 
      developmental outcomes and parental migration. The results showed the PYD model 
      had some international validity although modifications would be needed to make it 
      more suitable to Chinese settings. Little difference in the PYD outcomes was 
      detected by parental migration status. On other outcomes (i.e., self-rated 
      health, school grades, educational aspirations, problem behavior), positive 
      influences of parental migration were observed. Increased income but not social 
      resources in migrant families helped explain some of these patterns. The 
      take-home message from this study is that parental migration is not necessarily 
      an injurious situation for youth development. To advance our knowledge about the 
      developmental significance of parental migration for rural Chinese youth, we 
      urgently need large-scale representative surveys to collect comprehensive and 
      longitudinal information about rural children's developmental trajectories and 
      their multilevel social contexts to identify key resources of PYD in order to 
      better help migrant and non-migrant families nurture thriving youth in rural 
      China.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Wen, Ming
AU  - Wen M
AD  - Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Electronic 
      address: ming.wen@soc.utah.edu.
FAU - Su, Shaobing
AU  - Su S
AD  - Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, 
      Medford, MA, USA. Electronic address: shaobing.su@tufts.edu.
FAU - Li, Xiaoming
AU  - Li X
AD  - Prevention Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University 
      (WSU) School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA. Electronic address: 
      xiaoli@med.wayne.edu.
FAU - Lin, Danhua
AU  - Lin D
AD  - Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. 
      Electronic address: danhualin@bnu.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 MH064878/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 NR010498/NR/NINR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R21 TW006375/TW/FIC NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140724
PL  - England
TA  - Soc Sci Med
JT  - Social science & medicine (1982)
JID - 8303205
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Adolescent Development
MH  - Child
MH  - China
MH  - Emigrants and Immigrants/*psychology
MH  - Family/*psychology
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Status
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Health
MH  - *Parent-Child Relations
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Social Capital
PMC - PMC6234000
MID - NIHMS995261
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Child/adolescent outcomes
OT  - Development/outcomes
OT  - Educational aspirations
OT  - Parent-adolescent relationships
OT  - Rural/farm families
OT  - Self-rated health
EDAT- 2014/09/02 06:00
MHDA- 2016/01/13 06:00
PMCR- 2018/11/13
CRDT- 2014/09/02 06:00
PHST- 2014/03/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/06/01 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/07/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/09/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/09/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/01/13 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/11/13 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S0277-9536(14)00491-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.051 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soc Sci Med. 2015 May;132:261-9. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.051. Epub 2014 
      Jul 24.