PMID- 32485934
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20201013
LR  - 20201013
IS  - 1660-4601 (Electronic)
IS  - 1661-7827 (Print)
IS  - 1660-4601 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 11
DP  - 2020 May 29
TI  - The Interrelationships between Parental Migration, Home Environment, and Early 
      Child Development in Rural China: A Cross-Sectional Study.
LID - 10.3390/ijerph17113862 [doi]
LID - 3862
AB  - A growing body of literature is providing evidence of a negative association 
      between parental migration and child development. Meanwhile, the chain of 
      relationships between parental migration, home environment, and early child 
      development has not yet been well documented in China. This paper investigates 
      the interrelationships between parental migration, home environment, and early 
      child development in an undeveloped area of western rural China. In total, 444 
      households were included in the study. Bayley Scales of Infant Development 
      version III (BSID-III), Home Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME), 
      and a socioeconomic questionnaire, were used to measure children's development 
      outcomes, home environment, and socioeconomic characteristics in sample 
      households. A mediation effect model was used to estimate the interrelationships 
      between parental migration, home environment, and child development. The results 
      demonstrate that home environment works as a significant mediator, through which 
      parental migration is associated with a 0.07 standard deviation (SD), 0.13 SD, 
      0.12 SD, and 0.10 SD decline in the child's cognitive, language, motor, and 
      social-emotional scores, respectively. For future studies, the key findings 
      suggest that interventions aimed at improving the home environments of 
      left-behind children might be necessary in rural China.
FAU - Zhong, Jingdong
AU  - Zhong J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5468-3394
AD  - School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
FAU - Kuhn, Lena
AU  - Kuhn L
AD  - Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economics, 06120 
      Halle, Germany.
FAU - Wang, Tianyi
AU  - Wang T
AD  - China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, 
      Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
FAU - Liu, Chengfang
AU  - Liu C
AD  - China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, 
      Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
FAU - Luo, Renfu
AU  - Luo R
AD  - China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, 
      Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20200529
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Environ Res Public Health
JT  - International journal of environmental research and public health
JID - 101238455
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - *Child Development
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - China
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - *Emigrants and Immigrants
MH  - Family
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - *Rural Population
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
PMC - PMC7312289
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - early child development
OT  - home environment
OT  - parental migration
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2020/06/04 06:00
MHDA- 2020/10/21 06:00
PMCR- 2020/06/01
CRDT- 2020/06/04 06:00
PHST- 2020/04/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/05/23 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/05/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/06/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/06/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/10/21 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/06/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijerph17113862 [pii]
AID - ijerph-17-03862 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ijerph17113862 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 May 29;17(11):3862. doi: 
      10.3390/ijerph17113862.