The Relationship Between Cooperative Tendency and Social Anxieties among Migrant Children in Jinan, China: A Moderated Mediation of Social Adaption

Abstract

In urban-rural integration construction in China, the migrant children who follow their parents to urban cities have become a particular group in the urban system. Due to the stimulation of new environments, these migrant children experience psychological and socially unfit in the urban environment. Therefore, this study explores the relationship between migrant children's cooperation tendencies and social anxieties. The study was organized quantitively and distributed questionnaires to 344 migrant children. The results indicated that the cooperation tendency was significantly negatively related to children’s social anxieties; Preference for solitude played a fully mediating role between migrant children's cooperation tendency and social anxieties; Social adaptation plays a moderating role in the influence of cooperation tendency on preference for solitude, and a higher level of social adaptation enhances the influence of cooperation tendency on preference for solitude. The results of this study have significant reference value for reducing social anxieties in migrant children's cooperation situation and establishing healthy social interaction.