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Direct linkXiying Wang; Binli Chen – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Based on the first wave of the China Education Panel Survey, this study aims to test two competing mechanisms including son preference and meritocracy of leading to parents' expectations of and investment in their children's education. This article presents a general portrayal of academic performance among rural boys and girls. The findings depict…
Descriptors: Sons, Daughters, Academic Aspiration, Parent Attitudes
Lijuan Wang; Elina Lehtomaki – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2024
This study proposes a patterned explanation for the unequal educational achievement between Yi and Han students in China. Family backgrounds, school settings, educational expectations and aspirations are examined when investigating ethnic gaps in educational achievement. Evidence suggests significant impact of family backgrounds in shaping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Student Characteristics, Family Characteristics
Cui, Tianxue; Kam, Chester Chun Seng; Cheng, Emily Hongzhen; Liu, Qimeng – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study aimed to explore factors related to academic success (resilience) for students with socioeconomic disadvantages (SED) from the individual, school, and family domains. We also compared such factors with the results for students with socioeconomic advantages (SEA). A sample of 1767 eighth-graders (851 students with SEA and 916 students…
Descriptors: Success, Resilience (Psychology), At Risk Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Download full textHai, Yuhan – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
The development of education to improve poverty in the region has become an essential direction of the world's poverty alleviation work. In the poverty alleviation by education work in China, educators who are on the front line of poverty are determined by education and nurturing their wisdom, leading countless children from families out of…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Principals, Poverty, High Schools
Zhang, Lufa; Yang, Fan – School Psychology International, 2019
The present study aims to explore the associations between food insecurity and school performance, and the serial mediation of depression and educational expectation on the focal association, among Chinese rural left-behind children. This study conducted a cross-sectional survey on 2128 students (Grades 5-9, mean age = 13.21 years) who reported…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Security (Psychology), Depression (Psychology)
Gao, Shu Ling; Chan, Ko Ling – SAGE Open, 2015
This study examined the relations among future orientation, school bonding, and school bullying perpetration behaviors. Data were collected from 677 seventh- to ninth-grade adolescents in an area in Southwest China. Specifically, students completed the Future-Orientation Questionnaire, the Psychological Sense of School Membership scale, and the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Rural Areas, Correlation, Futures (of Society)
Yao, Haogen – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
This study develops a sequential mixed model of Delphi-Propensity Score Matching to discuss how an NGO's socio-emotional support affects the decisions of dropout, work, and two types of upper secondary schooling in rural China. Data were collected from 6,298 students in 2012 after a subgroup of them were treated. The analysis shows that…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Academic Aspiration, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
