Economic disadvantages and migrants' subjective well-being in China: The mediating effects of relative deprivation and neighbourhood deprivation
Economic disadvantages and migrants' subjective well-being in China: The mediating effects of relative deprivation and neighbourhood deprivation
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中国的经济劣势和农民工的主观幸福感：相对剥夺和邻里剥夺的中介效应。
DOI：
10.1002/psp.2173
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发表时间：
2019-03-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Wu, Fulong
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作者：
Liu, Yuqi;Zhang, Fangzhu;Wu, Fulong
中国的新型城镇化计划引起了公众对大城市内部流动人口福祉的关注。虽然大量的文献已经记录和解释了移民在东道国的经济劣势，只有少数研究试图解开他们的实际经济条件和他们的主观幸福感（SWB）之间的联系。在中国城市流动人口的幸福感研究中，缺乏对个体的相对剥夺感和邻里剥夺感如何在其经济劣势和主观幸福感之间起中介作用的系统研究。为了弥合这一知识鸿沟，本文利用问卷调查数据和多水平线性回归分析方法，考察了广州市外来人口的实际经济劣势对其主观幸福感的影响程度和影响方式。更特别的是，它探讨了个人和社区层面的贫困（绝对和相对）影响移民SWB的途径。多层次分析结果表明，流动人口的绝对经济劣势与主观幸福感呈负相关。中介分析的结果表明，相对于东道城市的其他人而言，感到社会经济被剥夺和生活在被剥夺的社区是移民的绝对经济劣势对他们的主观幸福感产生负面影响的两个重要途径。我们的研究结果表明，迫切需要弥合移民与当地的社会差距，遏制移民社区的贫困，以提高移民的主观幸福感。
China's new-style urbanisation plan has aroused public concern about the well-being of internal migrants in large cities. Although a large body of literature has documented and explained migrants' economic disadvantages in the host city, only a few studies have attempted to unravel the link between their actual economic conditions and their subjective well-being (SWB). What is missing in the literature on migrants' well-being in Chinese cities is a systematic investigation into how both individuals' feeling of relative deprivation and neighbourhood deprivation mediate the relationship between their economic disadvantages and their SWB. To bridge this knowledge gap, this paper examined to what extent and in what ways migrants' actual economic disadvantages affected their SWB in Guangzhou, China, using questionnaire survey data and multilevel linear regressions. More particularly, it explored the pathways through which deprivation (in both absolute and relative terms) at both individual and neighbourhood levels influenced migrants' SWB. Results from the multilevel analysis showed that migrants' absolute economic disadvantages were negatively associated with their SWB. Results from mediation analysis indicated that feeling socio-economically deprived relative to other people in the host cities and living in deprived neighbourhoods were two important pathways through which migrants' absolute economic disadvantages negatively affected their SWB. Our findings suggest an urgent need to bridge the migrant-local social gap and curb the poverty of migrant neighbourhoods to enhance migrants' SWB.