Author(s)

Yonghao Guan ¹, Zi Li ¹, Liang Zhang ², Yiqi He ³

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Public Finance and Taxation, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, 210023, China
² Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, Nanjing, 210004, China
³ School of Accounting, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, 210023, China

Corresponding Author

Yiqi He

ABSTRACT

Based on the data of the 2013-2014 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS),with multiple regression (OLS) and propensity score matching(PSM) regression methods, this paper analyzes the effects of sibling structure on adolescent mental health from the theoretical level. Results show that firstly, the only child will have an impact on the mental health development of adolescents. Scend, there are gender differences in the impact of being the only child on the mental health development of adolescents, parents are more inclined to boys in resource allocation. The conclusion is that it is of great significance for non-only-child families to rationally allocate "economic resources" and "non-economic resources" in the family, and to improve the discrimination of girls in family education and emotional investment.

KEYWORDS

Only child, Sib structure, Mental health, teenagers

CITE THIS PAPER

Yonghao Guan, Zi Li, Liang Zhang, Yiqi He, The influence of sibling structure on adolescent mental health: From the perspective of economics. Applied & Educational Psychology (2024) Vol. 5: 71-77. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2024.050212.

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