Explore Mother’s Educational Expectations and Aspirations: A Case from China

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Main Author: HuiGuo Liu
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Published: Hipatia Press 2015
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contents Explore Mother’s Educational Expectations and Aspirations: A Case from China HuiGuo Liu Educación optimism educational aspirations educational expectations relative economic status Social psychological mechanisms The research presented explores determinants of mother’s educational expectations and aspirations. In contrast to the effects of social economic status (SES) that have been examined in previous research, I have focused on a set of social psychological variables. With the help of data collected from the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, a survey of Chinese 9 to 12-year-old children in rural areas, I have analyzed mothers’ educational expectations and aspirations for their children using multinomial logistic regression. Evidence suggests important effects of personality (specifically confidence) and subjective economic status on mothers’ educational expectations. This lends support to the “pushed-from-behind” theory of attainment in which educational decisions are at least partly driven by opaque (beyond individual consciousness) social psychological mechanisms. The results call for further incorporation of social psychological variables into scholarship on educational decisions, and more generally, into the field of educational stratification. Moreover, the results also shed light on the theoretical and conceptual differentiation between educational expectations and aspirations. 2015 artículo científico 2014-3575 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317139642002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3171 Revista Internacional de Sociología de la Educación application/pdf Hipatia Press Revista Internacional de Sociología de la Educación (España) Num.2 Vol.4
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spellingShingle Explore Mother’s Educational Expectations and Aspirations: A Case from China
HuiGuo Liu
Educación
optimism
educational aspirations
educational expectations
relative economic status
Social psychological mechanisms
Explore Mother’s Educational Expectations and Aspirations: A Case from China HuiGuo Liu Educación optimism educational aspirations educational expectations relative economic status Social psychological mechanisms The research presented explores determinants of mother’s educational expectations and aspirations. In contrast to the effects of social economic status (SES) that have been examined in previous research, I have focused on a set of social psychological variables. With the help of data collected from the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, a survey of Chinese 9 to 12-year-old children in rural areas, I have analyzed mothers’ educational expectations and aspirations for their children using multinomial logistic regression. Evidence suggests important effects of personality (specifically confidence) and subjective economic status on mothers’ educational expectations. This lends support to the “pushed-from-behind” theory of attainment in which educational decisions are at least partly driven by opaque (beyond individual consciousness) social psychological mechanisms. The results call for further incorporation of social psychological variables into scholarship on educational decisions, and more generally, into the field of educational stratification. Moreover, the results also shed light on the theoretical and conceptual differentiation between educational expectations and aspirations. 2015 artículo científico 2014-3575 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317139642002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3171 Revista Internacional de Sociología de la Educación application/pdf Hipatia Press Revista Internacional de Sociología de la Educación (España) Num.2 Vol.4
title Explore Mother’s Educational Expectations and Aspirations: A Case from China
topic Educación
optimism
educational aspirations
educational expectations
relative economic status
Social psychological mechanisms
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317139642002