Findings from School of Humanities and Social Sciences Broaden Understanding of Mental Health Diseases and Conditions (Migration and Depression Among Chinese Grandparents: Moderated Mediation Model of Social Support and Social Health Insurance): Mental Health Diseases and Conditions

2025 MAR 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Mental Health Diseases and Conditions is now available. According to news reporting from Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Against the background of growing urbanization, Chinese grandparents increasingly migrate to cities to provide informal childcare. However, this upheaval may negatively impact their well-being.”

Financial support for this research came from Shenzhen Research Center for Pilot Demonstration Area: Study on Delicacy Management of Megacity.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, “This study aimed to investigate the association of migration status with depressive symptoms among grandparent caregivers and test the indirect association of social support and moderation of social health insurance. Using multi-stage cluster random sampling, we recruited and surveyed 981 grandparent caregivers (mean age = 58.3 years; 71.6% female) from Eastern China. After controlling for covariates, migration status was positively associated with depressive symptoms. The indirect association via family social support (but not friend social support) was significant. Moreover, social health insurance coverage moderated the indirect association via family social support. Hence, the role of family social support appears to outweigh that of support from friends in protecting Chinese grandparent caregivers’ mental health; such protection is stronger among those without local social health insurance.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “We underscore the need for universal social health insurance coverage, regardless of individuals’ migration status, to protect grandparent caregivers’ mental health in China.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Migration and Depression Among Chinese Grandparents: Moderated Mediation Model of Social Support and Social Health Insurance. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2025. Journal of Child and Family Studies can be contacted at: Springer, One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, Ny, United States. (Springer - www.springer.com; Journal of Child and Family Studies - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1062-1024/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Haoyi Guo, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Tan Tang and Tao Sun.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-025-03019-w. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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