Discrimination experience and quality of life among rural-to-urban migrants in China: the mediation effect of expectation-reality discrepancy.

Objective: To examine the effect of expectation-reality discrepancy in mediating the relationship between discrimination experience and quality of life (QOL) among rural-to-urban migrants in China.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1,006 rural-to-urban migrants in 2004-2005 in Bei...

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Publicado en:Quality of Life Research Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 291 - 301
Autores principales: Zhang J, Li X, Fang X, Xiong Q, Zhang, Jintao, Li, Xiaoming, Fang, Xiaoyi, Xiong, Qing
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2009
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          Zhang J
          Li X
          Fang X
          Xiong Q
          Zhang, Jintao
          Li, Xiaoming
          Fang, Xiaoyi
          Xiong, Qing
        affil: Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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          Prejudice
          Quality of Life
          Migrants
          Adolescence
          Adult
          China
          Cross Sectional Studies
          Female
          Human
          Male
          Rural Population
          Urban Population
          Young Adult
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Female
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      ab: Objective: To examine the effect of expectation-reality discrepancy in mediating the relationship between discrimination experience and quality of life (QOL) among rural-to-urban migrants in China.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1,006 rural-to-urban migrants in 2004-2005 in Beijing, China. QOL was measured using the Chinese version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF). The migrants were also asked to report their experience of being discriminated against in the urban areas (i.e., discrimination experience), and their perceived difference between premigratory expectation and postmigratory reality in the city (i.e., expectation-reality discrepancy). Structural equation modeling (SEM) method was employed to assess the mediation effect.Results: Discrimination experience not only had a direct significant negative effect on QOL among rural-to-urban migrants, but also had an indirect effect through expectation-reality discrepancy on their QOL. Migrants' expectation-reality discrepancy exerted a partially mediation effect in the relationship between discrimination experience and QOL.Conclusions: Health promotion and prevention programs in the future to improve migrants' QOL should pay more attention to reducing the discrimination against migrants as well as helping migrants to reduce discrepancy between premigratory expectation and postmigratory reality.
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