ArticleChinese sociological review2020
Parental Migration and Children's Psychological and Cognitive Development in China: Differences and Mediating Mechanisms.
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- Urbanisation and mental health in left-behind children: systematic review and meta-analysis using resilience framework.Pediatric research · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalence and risk factors of mental disorders in a cross-sectional study of adolescents in South China.Discover mental health · 2026Article
- Quality of childcare and delayed child development in left-behind children in China.Pediatric research · 2024Article
- Both parents migrating and left-behind children's cognitive ability in rural China: does it pay?Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Internal Migration: Understanding Parent-Child Differences in Educational Expectations.Population research and policy review · 2024Article
- The Causal Effects of Urban-to-Urban Migration on Left-behind Children's Well-Being in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The bright side of digitization: Assessing the impact of mobile phone domestication on left-behind children in China's rural migrant families.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Effect pathways of informal family separation on children's outcomes: Paternal labor migration and long-term educational attainment of left-behind children in rural China.Social science research · 2021Article
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Abstract
Internal migration has resulted in a large number of left-behind children in China. Despite growing attention to this population, important gaps remain in our understanding of their cognitive development and the factors that mediate the impact of migration on children. The present study draws on a new nationally representative survey of Chinese children to study the psychological and cognitive development of left-behind children. Results show that rural children left behind by both parents (but not by one parent) are worse off in both psychological well-being and cognitive development than rural children living with both parents. The disadvantage of left-behind children is mediated by their caregivers' emotional well-being, parenting practices, and education. We also find a pronounced rural-urban difference in children's cognitive development.
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