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Family socioeconomic status and emotional adaptation among rural-to-urban migrant adolescents in China: The moderating roles of adolescent's resilience and parental positive emotion

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Silin Huang

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Institute of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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Mingyue Han,

Mingyue Han

School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

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Ling Sun,

Ling Sun

School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

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Hongchuan Zhang,

Hongchuan Zhang

School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

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Hui-Jie Li,

Hui-Jie Li

CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China

Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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Silin Huang,

Corresponding Author

Silin Huang

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Institute of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Mingyue Han,

Mingyue Han

School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

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Ling Sun,

Ling Sun

School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

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Hongchuan Zhang,

Hongchuan Zhang

School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

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Hui-Jie Li,

Hui-Jie Li

CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China

Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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First published: 25 June 2018

https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12499

Citations: 13

We are grateful to all the children, parents and teachers who participated or contributed to this project. This research was supported by the Youth Scholars Program of Beijing Normal University, the Program for Innovation Research in Central University of Finance and Economics, the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) (2015CB351702) and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2016084).

#SH conceived and designed this study. MH and LS performed the investigation. SH and MH executed the statistical analyses. SH completed the manuscript. SH, HZ and H-J modified the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Abstract

Low family socioeconomic status (SES) is closely related to increased risk of emotional maladaptation among adolescents. Although previous studies have found that low family SES is a significant and common experience for most rural-to-urban migrant adolescents in China, little research has examined the association between family SES and emotional adaptation or identified the protective factors that may minimise emotional maladaptation among these adolescents. The present study examined the associations between family SES and three indices of emotional adaptation (emotion regulation, life satisfaction and depression) and the moderating effects of adolescents' resilience and parental positive emotion (PE) among 486 Chinese rural-to-urban migrant adolescents. The results suggest that family SES was significantly associated with migrant adolescents' emotional outcomes, to varying degrees. Moreover, both adolescents' resilience and PE moderated the associations between family SES and emotional outcomes, although the protective effects of the two moderators differed on the three emotional outcomes. These findings shed light into designing intervention and prevention programs to reduce emotional maladaptation among migrant adolescents.

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