A Prospective Study on Resilience Among Children with Different Migrant and Left-behind Trajectories.

ABSTRACT: Parental migration has been an important predictor of children's psychological resilience. The present study discusses the effect of parental migration on children's resilience in rural western China from a dynamic viewpoint. Using sequence analysis, this study investigates children's entire migration trajectory over the course of childhood (ages 1-12) and identifies the typical patterns of the dynamic family structure associated with parental migration: continuously nonmigrant (N = 4,238), continuously migrant (N = 923), continuously left behind by one parent (N = 872), continuously left behind by both parents (N = 796) and frequent transition between migrant or left-behind statuses (N = 1,624). The results show that the trajectories of left-behind status and transition have a significant

SUBMITTER: He X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9185725 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature