Mobility, independent agency, and cosmopolitan settlement: Evidence from Chinese senior undergraduates
Cosmopolitan cities share similarities with historical frontiers, including potential opportunities for economic success, high social mobility, weakened traditional conventions, and adventure and novel experiences. Individuals with high independence typically prefer to settle in cosmopolitan cities....
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| author | Hui Tang Gengyao Chen Zhijun Liu Ran Zhao Cheng Lu Yanhua Su |
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| description | Cosmopolitan cities share similarities with historical frontiers, including potential opportunities for economic success, high social mobility, weakened traditional conventions, and adventure and novel experiences. Individuals with high independence typically prefer to settle in cosmopolitan cities. However, previous research testing this cosmopolitan settlement hypothesis did not consider the influence of relational mobility and residential mobility. Moreover, the mechanisms that drive people to prefer cosmopolitan cities remain unclear. This study examines the relationships among independence, relational mobility, residential mobility, and preference for cosmopolitan cities among 296 Chinese senior undergraduates. The results indicate that: (1) independence remains a positive predictor of the preference for cosmopolitan cities above and beyond relational mobility, residential mobility (i.e., history, state, and intention), and other covariates; (2) intention of residential mobility also positively predicts preference for cosmopolitan cities when controlling for related covariates; and (3) relational mobility indirectly predicts perceived preference for cosmopolitan cities through dependence. This research underscores the importance of identifying the factors and mechanisms affecting cosmopolitan settlement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59e21ef9a7a04d1fa66d5fd439159dc82022-12-22T03:01:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-12-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.10579741057974Mobility, independent agency, and cosmopolitan settlement: Evidence from Chinese senior undergraduatesHui Tang0Gengyao Chen1Zhijun Liu2Ran Zhao3Cheng Lu4Yanhua Su5School of Education, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, ChinaLiri Elementary School, Shantou, ChinaCenter for Mental Health Research in School of Management, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, ChinaHarbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, ChinaNanfang College Guangzhou, Guangzhou, ChinaCenter for Mental Health Research in School of Management, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, ChinaCosmopolitan cities share similarities with historical frontiers, including potential opportunities for economic success, high social mobility, weakened traditional conventions, and adventure and novel experiences. Individuals with high independence typically prefer to settle in cosmopolitan cities. However, previous research testing this cosmopolitan settlement hypothesis did not consider the influence of relational mobility and residential mobility. Moreover, the mechanisms that drive people to prefer cosmopolitan cities remain unclear. This study examines the relationships among independence, relational mobility, residential mobility, and preference for cosmopolitan cities among 296 Chinese senior undergraduates. The results indicate that: (1) independence remains a positive predictor of the preference for cosmopolitan cities above and beyond relational mobility, residential mobility (i.e., history, state, and intention), and other covariates; (2) intention of residential mobility also positively predicts preference for cosmopolitan cities when controlling for related covariates; and (3) relational mobility indirectly predicts perceived preference for cosmopolitan cities through dependence. This research underscores the importance of identifying the factors and mechanisms affecting cosmopolitan settlement.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1057974/fullChinesecosmopolitanismvoluntary settlementindependencerelational mobilityresidential mobility |
| spellingShingle | Hui Tang Gengyao Chen Zhijun Liu Ran Zhao Cheng Lu Yanhua Su Mobility, independent agency, and cosmopolitan settlement: Evidence from Chinese senior undergraduates Frontiers in Psychology Chinese cosmopolitanism voluntary settlement independence relational mobility residential mobility |
| title | Mobility, independent agency, and cosmopolitan settlement: Evidence from Chinese senior undergraduates |
| title_full | Mobility, independent agency, and cosmopolitan settlement: Evidence from Chinese senior undergraduates |
| title_fullStr | Mobility, independent agency, and cosmopolitan settlement: Evidence from Chinese senior undergraduates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobility, independent agency, and cosmopolitan settlement: Evidence from Chinese senior undergraduates |
| title_short | Mobility, independent agency, and cosmopolitan settlement: Evidence from Chinese senior undergraduates |
| title_sort | mobility independent agency and cosmopolitan settlement evidence from chinese senior undergraduates |
| topic | Chinese cosmopolitanism voluntary settlement independence relational mobility residential mobility |
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