Although the perception of discrimination has been revealed to play crucial negative roles in the well-being of disadvantaged children, the nature of the relation between perceived discrimination and well-being remains unclear. Using social identity theory as a framework, Branscombe, Schmitt and Harvey. (1999) developed the rejection–identification model to describe the dual effects of perceiving discrimination on the psychological well-being, and empirical research has supported its predictions among the members of low status group members, particularly when the boundaries between the low status group and the higher status group are perceived as impermeable.
For Chinese migrant children, their group membership is transitory (i.e., upward mobility into the higher status group is possible), the relation between perceived discrimination and well-being among them may be different from those whom membership is impermeable. This study aimed to investigating the relationship between perceived personal and group discrimination and subjective well-being as well as the mediation effect of ingroup identity and perceived group status on it among Chinese migrant children. 904 migrant children in the school of migrant children and 446 migrant children in the public school participated in this study. All participants completed a self-report assessment on testing their perceived personal and group discrimination, negative and positive affections, students’ life satisfaction, ingroup identity and perceived group status.
The results indicated that there was a significant relationship between perceived personal and group discrimination and subjective well-being, ingroup emotional identity and perceived group status among Chinese migrant children. Perceived personal and group discrimination both had the significantly direct effects on the subjective well-being of migrant children, and had the significantly indirect effect on the subjective well-being via the mediation effect of perceived group status. In addition, perceived personal discrimination had the significantly indirect effects on the subjective well-being of migrant children via the multiple mediation effect of ingroup emotional identity and perceived group status.
Key words
migrant children /
perceived discrimination /
subjective well-being /
ingroup identity /
perceived group status
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