Social stress, locality of social ties and mental well-being: The case of rural migrant adolescents in urban China

Abstract This paper examines the effect that a man’s retirement has on his wife’s mental and physical health. I exploit the large increase in the probability of retirement at the legal retirement age for urban male wage earners in China as a natural experiment, using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS). I have implemented a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to compare the health outcomes of women whose husbands recently retired with those whose husbands are close to retire. My findings indicate that the retirement of her spouse improves physical and mental well-being of the woman, most likely by increasing the frequency of her social interactions and exercising. Although income and marital quality are less likely to be the main channels through which this positive spillover effect operates, decreased marital satisfaction or severe income constraints can be binding.

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Gender, Victimization, and Adolescent Psychological Health in the Context of Migration

Youth & Society ◽

10.1177/0044118x17734232 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 52 (1) ◽

pp. 99-118

Author(s):

Nicole W. T. Cheung

Keyword(s):

Social Relationships ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Social Stress ◽

Strongly Correlated ◽

Migration Research ◽

Rural Migrant ◽

The Social ◽

Migrant Adolescents ◽

Previous Scholarship

Although gender has become a key dimension in migration research, previous scholarship has largely focused on adult rather than child migrants. Even less attention has been paid to the role of gender in migration-related child health. By comparing rural migrant and urban-born adolescents in the largest city in south China, this study assessed gender differences in psychological health and whether such differences were informed by socially induced victimization stressors and stress-moderation mechanisms related to the social relationships that link migrants to their host cities (local ties) and home villages (translocal ties). Victimization was more strongly correlated with suboptimal psychological health in girls versus boys across the migrant and urban-born samples. Local and translocal ties directly increased the psychological health and buffered the deleterious effect of victimization for migrant girls; yet, the roles of these ties were less notable in migrant boys. These results indicate gendered susceptibility to social stress in migrant adolescents.

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Mental Well-Being in Boys and Girls of Immigrant Background: The Balance between Vulnerability and Resilience

Growing up in Diverse Societies ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197266373.003.0014 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 369-397

Author(s):

Jan O. Jonsson ◽

Carina Mood

Keyword(s):

Social Stress ◽

Family Cohesion ◽

Immigrant Families ◽

Well Being ◽

Children Of Immigrants ◽

Immigrant Background ◽

Externalising Problems ◽

The Difference ◽

Internalising Problems ◽

Mental Well Being

The difference in mental well-being between children of immigrants and children of the native-born can be seen as a crucial indicator of integration. Theories about acculturation and social stress due to adverse socio-economic circumstances in immigrant families predict that the well-being of children in these families would be at risk. Our study of internalising and externalising problems in adolescents does not find any support for this: if anything, there is a weak but systematic tendency for children of immigrants to have somewhat higher well-being, regardless of gender and immigrant generation. The advantages that we find for children of immigrants are partly accounted for by a stronger family orientation in immigrant families (for internalising problems), while religiosity accounts for most of the advantage in externalising behaviour. But even though family cohesion is of importance, there are only small differences in cohesion between children to immigrants and non-immigrants; and although the religiosity differs enormously between immigrant and majority families, the association with well-being is quite weak.

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Perceived Overprotection and Its Association With Quality of Life in Dementia

GeroPsych ◽

10.1024/1662-9647/a000207 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 125-134

Author(s):

Mechthild Niemann-Mirmehdi ◽

Andreas Häusler ◽

Paul Gellert ◽

Johanna Nordheim

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Patient Autonomy ◽

Positive Association ◽

Well Being ◽

Negative Association ◽

Significant Positive Association ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

People With Dementia ◽

Mental Well Being

Abstract. To date, few studies have focused on perceived overprotection from the perspective of people with dementia (PwD). In the present examination, the association of perceived overprotection in PwD is examined as an autonomy-restricting factor and thus negative for their mental well-being. Cross-sectional data from the prospective DYADEM study of 82 patient/partner dyads (mean age = 74.26) were used to investigate the association between overprotection, perceived stress, depression, and quality of life (QoL). The analyses show that an overprotective contact style with PwD has a significant positive association with stress and depression, and has a negative association with QoL. The results emphasize the importance of avoiding an overprotective care style and supporting patient autonomy.

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