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Life satisfaction in Chinese rural‐to‐urban migrants: Investigating the roles of self‐esteem and affect balance
Author(s) -
Liang Dekuo,
Xu Dawei,
Xia Liying,
Ma Xuelin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.22360
Subject(s) - life satisfaction , affect (linguistics) , self esteem , psychology , china , scale (ratio) , balance (ability) , social psychology , geography , cartography , communication , neuroscience , archaeology
The goal of the present article is to investigate whether positive and negative affects mediate or moderate the impact of self‐esteem on life satisfaction among Chinese rural‐to‐urban migrants. Participants contained 712 rural‐to‐urban migrants recruited from four construction sites in China, who were evaluated with Rosenberg Self‐Esteem Scale, Positive and Negative Affect Scale, and Satisfaction with Life Scale. Correlation analysis indicated self‐esteem positively predicted life satisfaction. In addition, we demonstrated the mediating effects of positive affect and negative affect partially in the links from self‐esteem to life satisfaction, but failed to reveal the moderating effects. These findings suggested that affect balance intervention program may benefit the life satisfaction in Chinese rural‐to‐urban migrants.