Life Satisfaction and Mental Health in Migrant Children
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 227
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Migrant children represent a unique and vulnerable population facing various challenges related to adaptation, acculturation, and wellbeing. Understanding their life satisfaction and mental health is crucial in ensuring their successful integration into new environments, alongside being informative for policy and service development. Behavioral Sciences is pleased to announce a Special Issue dedicated to advancing research on “Life Satisfaction and Mental Health in Migrant Children”. We invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners to contribute original research articles, reviews, theoretical discussions, empirical studies, and intervention developments that shed light on the multifaceted aspects of life satisfaction and mental health among migrant children. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) psychological well-being and resilience in migrant children; 2) factors influencing life satisfaction and mental health outcomes of migrant children; 3) acculturation processes and their impact on life satisfaction and mental health; 4) social integration and the mental health of migrant children; 5) interventions and support systems for enhancing the mental health and life satisfaction of migrant children; and 6) comparative studies across different migrant children populations and across different contexts.
Dr. Qiaobing Wu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- migrant children
- life satisfaction
- mental health
- psychological wellbeing
- resilience
- acculturation
- social integration
- intervention
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Mental Health and Life Satisfaction of Cross-border Students in Hong Kong: A Resilience Framework
Authors: Qiaobing Wu; Hui Qiu
Affiliation: Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Abstract: Nearly 28,000 children, ranging from kindergarten to secondary school age, commute between mainland China and Hong Kong for education on a daily basis. They are known as cross-border students (CBS) who legally hold permanent Hong Kong citizenship and attend schools in Hong Kong but reside in mainland China, a unique population in the context of cross-border migration. Social media has reported various challenges faced by CBS, but systematic research on this population has been limited up to date. This study proposes a resilience framework to investigate the mental health and life satisfaction of CBS in relation to a range of individual and contextual resilience factors. Using data from a cross-sectional survey of 445 CBS, this study examines how family and community social capital promote the mental health and life satisfaction of CBS through individual resilience in the appearance of single and multiple adversities. Results of structural equation modelling suggest that family social capital serves as significant promotive and protective factors for the self-esteem, mental well-being, happiness, and life satisfaction of CBS in the presence of both single and multiple adversities, while community social capital can only promote CBS’s mental well-being in the presence of single or no adversity. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings for researchers, parents and service professionals are also discussed.
