Topic: A man-made divide: Investigating the effect of urban-rural household registration and subjective social status on mental health mediated by loneliness among a large sample of University students in China
Abstract: The urban-rural household registration system in China has been documented with profound social consequences in almost all areas of people's life. This study aims to investigate the underlying mechanism of the rural and urban discrepancies on mental health conditions among a large sample of college students in China. A survey was distributed among college students in China. A total of 96,218 college students from 63 colleges completed the survey. answering questions on the urban-rural household registration, disposable household income, subjective social status, feelings of loneliness, and anxiety and depression symptoms. Confirmatory Factor Analysis(CFA)and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analyses were conducted, testing the effect of urban-rural registration on one's mental health, mediated by subjective social status and loneliness. The results indicated that decreasing the disparity of social status and tackling loneliness is the key to improve the overall mental health of college students. The urban-rural house hold registration system may have a very small direct effect on the college students' mental health; but students of urban registration enjoyed higher subjective social status, which had a clear protective effect against anxiety and depression symptoms.
Keynote Speaker: Dr Hui Yu
Dr Hui Yu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University. Her research interests are in the use of experimental methods and computational modelling to investigate the processes and mechanisms of various human behaviours, from online Trolling to attitudes towards immigration. Her interdisciplinary background (BSc in Life Sciences from Peking University, MSc from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and PhD in Psychology from the National University of Singapore), research interests and extensive research methods (including experimental design and data analysis) enable her to achieve broad interdisciplinary collaboration. Her research has been published in international journals such as Criminal Justice and Behavior.
Time: 14 December 2022 (Wednesday) 20:00-21:30 (Beijing time) 13:00-14:30 (UK time)
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