<p>This study examines how social rejection and social ignorance impact multidimensional well-being (physical, psychological, social, academic) among Chinese children, testing psychological need satisfaction as a mediator and comparing rural-to-urban migrant and non-migrant peers. A questionnaire survey was administered to 2,090 fourth- to sixth-grade students in China, including 1,071 migrant children and 1,019 non-migrant children. Structural equation modeling of survey data revealed: Both exclusion types directly reduced all well-being domains and indirectly via impaired psychological need satisfaction; Migrant children showed stronger vulnerability: social rejection more severely harmed their academic well-being, while social ignorance more significantly damaged physical well-being; psychological need satisfaction mediation pathways were invariant across groups. Results underscore exclusion’s multidimensional harms while highlighting migrant children’s unique risks, urging context-specific interventions to bolster psychological needs and equity.</p>

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Divergent Pathways: How Social Exclusion Differentially Impacts Migrant vs. Non-Migrant Children’s Well-Being

  • Jing Li,
  • Xiaoyang Li,
  • Xiaoyang Hou,
  • Guiru Liu,
  • Yadong Ding

摘要

This study examines how social rejection and social ignorance impact multidimensional well-being (physical, psychological, social, academic) among Chinese children, testing psychological need satisfaction as a mediator and comparing rural-to-urban migrant and non-migrant peers. A questionnaire survey was administered to 2,090 fourth- to sixth-grade students in China, including 1,071 migrant children and 1,019 non-migrant children. Structural equation modeling of survey data revealed: Both exclusion types directly reduced all well-being domains and indirectly via impaired psychological need satisfaction; Migrant children showed stronger vulnerability: social rejection more severely harmed their academic well-being, while social ignorance more significantly damaged physical well-being; psychological need satisfaction mediation pathways were invariant across groups. Results underscore exclusion’s multidimensional harms while highlighting migrant children’s unique risks, urging context-specific interventions to bolster psychological needs and equity.