Pre-Separation Mother–Child Relationship and Adjustment Behaviors of Young Children Left Behind in Rural China: Pathways Through Distant Mothering and Current Mother–Child Relationship Quality
Ruwen Liang, Karla Van Leeuwen · 2024
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Ruwen Liang and Karla Van Leeuwen study young children in rural China whose mothers migrated to cities for work. Their 2024 paper follows children aged three to six who live with grandparents. The question is how the mother-child bond before separation shapes later adjustment, through phone-based parenting and the current bond.
Data came from triads of grandparents, migrant mothers, and preschool teachers, each rating part of the picture. The bond before separation related to the bond after it and to warmer distant mothering. No chained pathway held, but two single links did: the current bond carried effects toward friendly behavior, and positive distant mothering toward acting-out problems. The work shows remote parenting quality still matters after families split across distance.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ruwen Liang, Karla Van Leeuwen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 57 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |