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Chinese migrant children’s mental health and career efficacy: the roles of mentoring relationship quality and self-efficacy

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: The current study aimed to examine whether migrant children’s relationship quality with mentors could make unique contributions in predicting their mental health and career efficacy, above and beyond the prediction from their relationship quality with parents. Based on social cognitive theory, it was also proposed that migrant children’s self-efficacy beliefs may mediate the positive effects of mentoring relationship quality on career efficacy and mental health. A survey study was conducted among Chinese migrant children (n=114) who joined a mentorship program in Beijing, China. The results showed that after controlling for the effects of parent relationship quality, mentoring relationship quality made a unique contribution in predicting migrant children’s career efficacy and mental health. In addition, path analysis revealed that the positive effects of mentoring relationship quality were fully mediated by children’s self-efficacy beliefs. These results revealed the importance of a mentor-mentee relationship in migrant children’ personal growth and provided preliminary evidence on the mechanisms underlying this process.

Source: International Journal on Disability and Human Development

DOI: 10.1515/ijdhd.2011.032

Authors: Charles C. Chan, Yanjun Guan, Philemon Y.W. Choi

Institutions: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Renmin University of China

Language: English

Topic: Mentoring and Academic Development

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Hong Kong Polytechnic University