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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 90, Issue 4, Pages 1016-1026Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13253
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC31600911, NSFC31700972]
- Guangzhou University [69-18ZX10079]
- 985 Program of Peking University
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Economic inequality has been found to be detrimental to psychological well-being. However, previous studies were mostly based on cross-sectional data, drew exclusively on adults, and confined to Western developed countries. To address these shortcomings, the current study investigated the longitudinal association of income inequality with adolescent psychological well-being in a non-Western developing economy (i.e., China). We used the China Family Panel Studies data set with a representative sample of 3,042 adolescents (M-age = 12.59) from 20 provinces in China. Analyses showed that adolescents in more unequal provinces had lower happiness and more psychological distress. The associations between economic inequality and well-being varied across adolescents from different socioeconomic strata.
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