Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 3 Stepwise regression analysis between socio-political variables and individuals’ intention to migrate to mainland China

	Model 1 (personal capacity)	Model 2 (personal capacity + personal orientation)	Model 3 (personal capacity + personal orientation + perception of external environment)
Mobility experience (mainland China)
Visitation frequency	0.157**	0.130*	0.164*
Work	− 0.026	− 0.018	− 0.036
Study	0.059	0.075	0.050
Visiting friends and family	0.078	0.067	0.059
Entertainment	0.101*	0.084	0.072
Tours and vacations	0.162**	0.121*	0.077
Mobility experience (destinations other than mainland China)
Visitation frequency	-0.087	− 0.071	− 0.047
Work	0.084	0.086	0.089
Study	− 0.056	− 0.040	− 0.016
Visiting friends and family	− 0.065	− 0.061	− 0.081
Entertainment	0.028	0.049	0.058
Tours and vacations	− 0.048	− 0.020	− 0.031
Sense of place
Place identity		0.078	0.045
Place affect		0.041	− 0.001
Place dependence		0.139*	0.039
Place social bonding		− 0.107*	− 0.096
Global citizenship		− 0.110*	− 0.091*
Trust and confidence in the law and the legal system			0.155**
Inequality			− 0.151**
F statistics	6.572	6.614	7.380
R	0.400	0.456	0.496
Adjusted R²	0.136	0.177	0.212