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Article: Exploring the Impacts of Housing Condition on Migrants’ Mental Health in Nanxiang, Shanghai: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

TitleExploring the Impacts of Housing Condition on Migrants’ Mental Health in Nanxiang, Shanghai: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach
Authors
KeywordsHousing condition
Mental health
Migrants
Neighbourhood satisfaction
Shanghai
Structural equation modelling (SEM)
Issue Date2018
PublisherMolecular Diversity Preservation International. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.org/ijerph
Citation
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018, v. 15 n. 2, p. 225:1-225:14 How to Cite?
AbstractAlthough rapid urbanization and associated rural-to-urban migration has brought in enormous economic benefits in Chinese cities, one of the negative externalities include adverse effects upon the migrant workers’ mental health. The links between housing conditions and mental health are well-established in healthy city and community planning scholarship. Nonetheless, there has thusfar been no Chinese study deciphering the links between housing conditions and mental health accounting for macro-level community environments, and no study has previously examined the nature of the relationships in locals and migrants. To overcome this research gap, we hypothesized that housing conditions may have a direct and indirect effects upon mental which may be mediated by neighbourhood satisfaction. We tested this hypothesis with the help of a household survey of 368 adult participants in Nanxiang Town, Shanghai, employing a structural equation modeling approach. Our results point to the differential pathways via which housing conditions effect mental health in locals and migrants. For locals, housing conditions have direct effects on mental health, while as for migrants, housing conditions have indirect effects on mental health, mediated via neighborhood satisfaction. Our findings have significant policy implications on building an inclusive and harmonious society. Upstream-level community interventions in the form of sustainable planning and designing of migrant neighborhoods can promote sense of community, social capital and support, thereby improving mental health and overall mental capital of Chinese cities.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/251530
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dc.contributor.authorXiao, YANG-
dc.contributor.authorMiao, SIYU-
dc.contributor.authorSarkar, C-
dc.contributor.authorGeng, HUIZHI-
dc.contributor.authorLu, YI-
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-01T03:40:44Z-
dc.date.available2018-03-01T03:40:44Z-
dc.date.issued2018-
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018, v. 15 n. 2, p. 225:1-225:14-
dc.identifier.issn1660-4601-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/251530-
dc.description.abstractAlthough rapid urbanization and associated rural-to-urban migration has brought in enormous economic benefits in Chinese cities, one of the negative externalities include adverse effects upon the migrant workers’ mental health. The links between housing conditions and mental health are well-established in healthy city and community planning scholarship. Nonetheless, there has thusfar been no Chinese study deciphering the links between housing conditions and mental health accounting for macro-level community environments, and no study has previously examined the nature of the relationships in locals and migrants. To overcome this research gap, we hypothesized that housing conditions may have a direct and indirect effects upon mental which may be mediated by neighbourhood satisfaction. We tested this hypothesis with the help of a household survey of 368 adult participants in Nanxiang Town, Shanghai, employing a structural equation modeling approach. Our results point to the differential pathways via which housing conditions effect mental health in locals and migrants. For locals, housing conditions have direct effects on mental health, while as for migrants, housing conditions have indirect effects on mental health, mediated via neighborhood satisfaction. Our findings have significant policy implications on building an inclusive and harmonious society. Upstream-level community interventions in the form of sustainable planning and designing of migrant neighborhoods can promote sense of community, social capital and support, thereby improving mental health and overall mental capital of Chinese cities.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherMolecular Diversity Preservation International. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.org/ijerph-
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectHousing condition-
dc.subjectMental health-
dc.subjectMigrants-
dc.subjectNeighbourhood satisfaction-
dc.subjectShanghai-
dc.subjectStructural equation modelling (SEM)-
dc.titleExploring the Impacts of Housing Condition on Migrants’ Mental Health in Nanxiang, Shanghai: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailSarkar, C: csarkar@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authoritySarkar, C=rp01980-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph15020225-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85041286228-
dc.identifier.hkuros284262-
dc.identifier.volume15-
dc.identifier.issue2-
dc.identifier.spage225:1-
dc.identifier.epage225:14-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000426721400050-
dc.publisher.placeSwitzerland-
dc.identifier.issnl1660-4601-

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