Migrant Children’s Identity Structure, Type And Its Influencing Factors

With the accelerating process of urbanization, more and more children migrated to urban with his parents. A considerable number of scholars are concerned about the identity of the migrant children, but existing research to explore the status of their identity from a system perspective, the lack of psychological research, and thus has been difficult given the individual level operational of interventions. Mobile children’s identity to the lack of a tool for measuring indexes, can not meet the needs of in-depth research and practical applications. The identity of the migrant children who are what capacity to explore, assess and adapt to, and experience the inner psychological and external consistency of behavior at the individual level. The purposes of this study is the identity of migrant children from the individual psychological preparation of questionnaires, a preliminary study of identity development characteristics and type of campus interpersonal relationships and examine the impact on identity.This study follows the question→literature→study design and implementation→results→confirm assumptions and processing of ideas, the preparation of the mobile children’s identity Questionnaire and its overall identity status, gender, grade, flow time, recognizing the type of investigation, and its main interpersonal relationships of the major venues (schools), how to influence identity exploration, theoretical and empirical basis for the migrant children’s identity intervention. Taken together, this study, the following conclusions:1. A mobile children’s identity has three dimensions, respectively, identity exploration, identity assessment and identity adaptation.2. In this study, on the basis of interviews and open-ended questionnaire, combined with social identity theory and identity theory, the preparation of the identity Questionnaire for migrant children. The statistical results showed that the questionnaire has acceptable reliability and validity.3. Identity of migrant children exist significant gender differences, girls on the identity of assessment dimensions significantly with higher than boys, while in the other dimensions significantly with lower than boys; significant grade stage differences in flow of children’s identity of the elementary level, significantly below the junior secondary identity.4. Identity and its dimension, the score of the current time in less than six months were lower than for children between the flow time of six months to one year, and the difference was significant; flow time flow time of six months to one year or less scored lower than a year to two children, and the difference is significant; flow time in a year to two years, two to three years was not significant.5. Through cluster analysis, the identity of the mobile identity of the child is divided into four types according to the identity level of the order:to reach a type of confusion type, marginalization, immersion type.6. Negative friendship quality and liquidity of the child’s identity was negatively related to positive friendship quality, the identity of the teacher-student relationship and social self-perception and migrant children was positively correlated.7. Several major positive prediction and negative friendship quality of the identity of the migrant children has a significant negative predictor of positive friendship quality, teacher-student relationship and social self-perception of the identity of the migrant children were the campus interpersonal relationships variables can explain 26.9% of the variance of the identity; positive friendship quality is more important to predict the identity of the migrant children.8. Social self-perception play some intermediary role between friendship quality and identity, teacher-student relationship and identity.