The bright side of digitization: Assessing the impact of mobile phone domestication on left-behind children in China's rural migrant families

Jia-mei, Tang; Wang, Ke; Luo, Yuming

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1003379

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“…Rural families need to improve the accessibility of the Internet to facilitate work and daily communication [ 37 , 38 ]. The demand for the Internet by left-behind family members due to emotional needs will also increase significantly [ 39 ]. As an important channel for information dissemination, the Internet has greatly improved the efficiency and range of people’s access to information [ 40 ].…”

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Can Non-farm Employment Improve Dietary Diversity of Left-Behind Family Members in Rural China?

Zhang,

Wang

2024

Foods

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Rural residents in China are still at risk of malnutrition, and increasing dietary diversity is crucial to improving their health. This study empirically analyzed the impact of non-farm employment on the dietary diversity of rural left-behind family members based on the China Land Economy Survey (CLES) 2020–2021 panel data at the farm and village levels. Dietary diversity was measured using the dietary diversity score (DDS) and the Chinese Food Guide Pagoda Score (CFGPS). The empirical results show that non-farm employment significantly enhances the dietary diversity of rural left-behind household members, including animal food diversity and plant food diversity. This result verifies the altruism phenomenon of non-farm employment in family diet. Mechanism analysis shows that non-farm employment enhances the dietary diversity of rural left-behind family members by increasing the level of family income, Internet accessibility, and family education. Heterogeneity analysis shows that non-farm employment does not enhance the dietary diversity of rural empty nesters and even has a negative impact. This reminds us that the nutritional health of rural empty nesters needs attention in the context of rapid urbanization and aging.

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Section: Theoretical Analysis and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Non-farm Employment Improve Dietary Diversity of Left-Behind Family Members in Rural China?

Zhang,

Wang

2024

Foods

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Choreographing digital love: materiality, emotionality, and morality in video-mediated communication between Chinese migrant parents and their left-behind children

Gan

2023

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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Video-mediated communication (VMC) has become particularly important for geographically dispersed families. Drawing on a 2-year video-based ethnographic study of under-resourced Chinese rural-to-urban migrant parents and their left-behind children, this article captures on-site distant parent–child VMC. Applying qualitative video analysis to study video calls, this article focuses on how people “choreograph” these video calls and investigates the improvised composition of actions and activities in mediated environment. The findings reveal that people coordinate the materiality, amplify the emotionality, and underpin the morality of love to sustain intimate relationships. Multigenerational parties, including parents, children, and grandparents, actively manage their connections through the moment-by-moment unfolding of choreographed actions in VMC. This study also highlights the bittersweet experiences, including the tension, contradictions, and asymmetries, among migrant parents, children, and the caregivers.

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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

Liang,

Van Leeuwen

2024

Behavioral Sciences

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In China, some rural parents do not live together with their children because they migrate to urban regions for work, and therefore they sometimes use a mobile phone in parenting their left-behind children (LBC), who are living with grandparents. This study used a serial mediation model to test the mediating roles of distant mothering and post-separation mother–child relationship quality in the link between recalled pre-separation mother–child relationship quality and social–emotional adjustment of 3-to-6-year-old LBC living in a rural context in China. Cross-sectional questionnaire data were collected from 185 triads, consisting of grandparents (rating child adjustment), migrant mothers (rating mother–child relationship qualities and distant mothering), and preschool teachers (rating child adjustment). The results showed that pre- and post-separation relationship qualities were positively related to each other and to positive distant mothering. There were no serial mediating effects, but a full individual mediating role of post-separation relationship quality and positive distant mothering was identified for the link between child prosocial behavior and externalizing problems, respectively. Despite the general decline in mother–child relationship quality after separation, mothers who perceived a higher quality of the pre-separation mother–child relationship showed a more cohesive relationship with their LBC, which might increase the prosocial behavior of the children. Additionally, a higher quality of the pre-separation relationship was associated with more distant mothering of positive characteristics, which went together with fewer children externalizing problems. These findings highlight the importance of a continuous high-quality mother–child bond and favorable maternal parenting practices in digital interactions for separated families.

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The bright side of digitization: Assessing the impact of mobile phone domestication on left-behind children in China's rural migrant families

Cited by 3 publications

References 72 publications

Can Non-farm Employment Improve Dietary Diversity of Left-Behind Family Members in Rural China?

Can Non-farm Employment Improve Dietary Diversity of Left-Behind Family Members in Rural China?

Choreographing digital love: materiality, emotionality, and morality in video-mediated communication between Chinese migrant parents and their left-behind children

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

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