ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
A man-made divide: Investigating the effect of urban-rural household registration and subjective social status on mental health mediated by loneliness among a large sample of university students in China.
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Abstract
Introduction: The urban-rural household registration system in China has been documented with profound social consequences in almost all areas of people's life. This study aims to investigate the underlying mechanism of the rural and urban discrepancies on mental health conditions among a large sample of college students in China. Methods: A survey was distributed among college students in China. A total of 96,218 college students from 63 colleges completed the survey, answering questions on their urban-rural household registration, disposable household income, subjective social status, feelings of loneliness, and anxiety and depression symptoms. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analyses were conducted, testing the effect of urban-rural registration on one's mental health, mediated by subjective social status, and loneliness. Results: Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) results revealed that the urban-rural household registration showed a direct effect on anxiety ( Conclusion: This study indicated that decreasing the disparity of social status and tackling loneliness is the key to improve the overall mental health of college students. The urban-rural household registration system may have a very small direct effect on the college students' mental health; but students of urban registration enjoyed higher subjective social status, which had a clear protective effect against anxiety and depression symptoms.
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