Psychological Analysis Of The City Engagement Of Exotic Employed Personnel's Children

For exotic employed personnel's children, the process of city engagement reflects the change from being outcomers to totally transferring into urban system, which is more than a change in geographical position, but a process of adapting to urban life and with urban peopl, in respects of culture and social mentalit.The research, carried out mainly from three psychological angles, targets at the extent to which migrant workers' children engaging into the city:1.Self-consciousness: "Who am I?"2.Sense of belonging to a region or a group: " Where does my heart belong to? "3.Regional stereotype and regional group preference—"What's the impression we lefton each other?"Research methods employed in this research:1. Questionnaire method:(1) Self-made questionnaires on subjects basic situation and sense of belonging ( sense of belonging to the city , the hometown , or the group);(2) Questionnaires on adjectives of regional stereotype;(3) Standardized questionnaires: scales on children's self-consciousness.2. Experimental method:Measuring the implicit effects of regional stereotype and regional group preference, with IAT implicit measuring technique.3. Case interview method:Probing deeply into the mentality of migrant workers' children through interviews, which provide assistance and evidence.Conclusions drawn from this research as below:1. Exotic employed personnel's children have a much lower standard of self-consciousness than their urban peers, besides, significant differences are found between them from separated scales respectively on intelligence and school conditions, and their differences are extremely significant, reflected from scales on behaviors, extent of happiness and satisfaction as well as from the total score.2. For exotic employed personnel's children , the sense of belonging to the city is far lower than that of local urban peers, while they feel more belonging to the city than to their hometown, the attachment to which tends to diminish as the time goes by since their stay in the city.3. Exotic employed personnel's children have a complicated mentality combining regional involvement and social segregation, which is displayed from their strong sense of belonging to the city and evident separation and estrangement from urban people. That's why they' re vividly called drifting "duckweed-like people" by researchers.As a whole, exotic employed personnel's children have, on the implicit level, an evident regional stereotype, which tends to diminish as time goes by since their transferring, besides, their urban peers also have a strong regional stereotype; To children born in Shanghai as well as those moving in from other provinces, they both think the former are positive and active as a whole, while the latter are negative and passive.