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<p>The mental health of migrant children has garnered significant attention from both society and educators. However, the connection between mental health and dialect ostracism has not been thoroughly established in prior research. While existing studies suggest a correlation between dialect ostracism and migrant children’s mental health, the underlying mechanisms of this relationship remain ambiguous. Specifically, this investigation employed a survey methodology, encompassing a cohort of 586 adolescents (288 girls; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 12.46 years, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 0.79 years). The study utilized questionnaires to examine the interplay between dialect ostracism and migrant children’s mental health, with a particular focus on the mediating roles of social support and peer relationships. The findings demonstrated that dialect ostracism maintained significant inverse associations with social support, peer relationships, and mental health among migrant children after controlling for gender and age covariates. Critically, the results identified dual mediation pathways: dialect ostracism influenced mental health both through the distinct effects of diminished social support and compromised peer relationships, as well as through their sequential interplay—where dialect stigmatization first eroded social support, which subsequently weakened peer bonds. These findings not only delineate the psychological mechanisms linking language-based marginalization to mental health disparities but also underscore the necessity of addressing dialect discrimination in interventions aimed at fostering migrant children’s adaptive development.</p>

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How is dialect ostracism associated with mental health of migrant children? The chained mediation through social support and peer relationship

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    2025年4月21日

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  • Qiangqiang Li,
  • Shanshan Chen

摘要

The mental health of migrant children has garnered significant attention from both society and educators. However, the connection between mental health and dialect ostracism has not been thoroughly established in prior research. While existing studies suggest a correlation between dialect ostracism and migrant children’s mental health, the underlying mechanisms of this relationship remain ambiguous. Specifically, this investigation employed a survey methodology, encompassing a cohort of 586 adolescents (288 girls; Mage = 12.46 years, SDage = 0.79 years). The study utilized questionnaires to examine the interplay between dialect ostracism and migrant children’s mental health, with a particular focus on the mediating roles of social support and peer relationships. The findings demonstrated that dialect ostracism maintained significant inverse associations with social support, peer relationships, and mental health among migrant children after controlling for gender and age covariates. Critically, the results identified dual mediation pathways: dialect ostracism influenced mental health both through the distinct effects of diminished social support and compromised peer relationships, as well as through their sequential interplay—where dialect stigmatization first eroded social support, which subsequently weakened peer bonds. These findings not only delineate the psychological mechanisms linking language-based marginalization to mental health disparities but also underscore the necessity of addressing dialect discrimination in interventions aimed at fostering migrant children’s adaptive development.