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What Matters on Rural Left-Behind Children’s Problem Behavior: Family Socioeconomic Status or Perceived Discrimination

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  • Wangqian Fu

    (Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China)

  • Rui Xue

    (School of Education, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100091, China)

  • Hongqin Chai

    (School of Education, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100091, China)

  • Wenxiang Sun

    (Social Science Division, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA)

  • Fangrui Jiang

    (Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China)

Abstract

With the acceleration of China’s industrialization and urbanization, there is a large number of left-behind children in China who are reported with more challenges in development. The study aims to analyze the differences in family socioeconomic status (SES) and discrimination perception between left-behind children and non-left-behind children and further explore whether SES or discrimination perception has a greater impact on the problem behaviors of left-behind children. We found the family SES of left-behind children was significantly lower than that of non-left-behind children; left-behind children’s perceived discrimination was significantly higher than that of non-left-behind children; perceived discrimination of left-behind children had a greater impact on their problem behavior than the family SES.

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  • Wangqian Fu & Rui Xue & Hongqin Chai & Wenxiang Sun & Fangrui Jiang, 2023. "What Matters on Rural Left-Behind Children’s Problem Behavior: Family Socioeconomic Status or Perceived Discrimination," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(2), pages 1-11, January.
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