Psychological Adjustment Of Farmer Laborers' Children In Yangzhou City

The problem of farmer laborers'children in cities has become the focus of social attention. Academics have emphasized these children's problems of entering school to be educated. With the society developing, the physical and mental health of these children comes to attention too. This thesis chooses the psychological status of farmer laborers'children in Yangzhou City as its research point and probes the similarities and differences among farmer laborers'children in a self-established school, farmer laborers'children in a government school and urban children in a government school. On the one hand, there are not many essays from this view of point. On the other hand, as migrant into cities these children show their unique features on psychological status with the change of living surroundings. They differ from the children living in the countryside all the time, also from the native children in cities. This dissociating condition brings great negative influence on their physical and mental development. With investigative collection of data, this thesis explores objectively the psychological status of these farm laborers'children, and makes attributions to improve their mental health and future growth.This thesis describes, based on investigation (questionnaires, interviews, and homework analysis), the psychological status of the farmer laborers'children living in Yangzhou City as well as those studying in a government school and additionally a self-established school special for farmer laborers'children. Then it considers the status with the urban children's together to figure out the differences between them on these dimensions of mental health, environmental adjustment, communication with others, study conditions, and self-evaluations. Then the author further probes the influence of communication with generalized others on the identity construction process of farmer laborers'children in Yangzhou City, how those children recognize themselves and construct their identity on such a basis and how the urban-rural dualistic social structure influences this process. In the communication with generalized others, farmer laborers'children take urban citizens as a reference and construct a marginal identity just as their parents do. The duties are oftten overemphasized while lawful rights are frequently ignored. However, identity is an ever-changing process rather than a fixed entity. Active communication can have active influences on the remediation of negative identity.