College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Nov 4;18(21):11571. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182111571.
This study aimed to determine whether learning engagement plays a mediating effect on the relationship between family capital and students' higher education gains in mainland China. We used family capital, learning engagement, and higher education gains as measures and analyzed data using a structural equation model. Data were collected from 1334 students at a Chinese university. The results show that family cultural capital had the most significant effect on students' learning engagement, while economic capital also played a positive role, and social capital had no significant impact. Learning engagement played a mediating role in the relationship between cultural capital and higher education gains, as did the relationship between economic capital and higher education gains. However, learning engagement did not have a mediating effect on the relationship between social capital and higher education gains. Our results show that we should focus on the importance of students' learning engagement, improve the cultural capital of disadvantaged groups, and provide financial support for students from low-income families.
本研究旨在探讨学习投入在家庭资本与中国大陆学生高等教育收益之间的关系中是否起中介作用。我们使用家庭资本、学习投入和高等教育收益作为衡量指标，并使用结构方程模型对数据进行分析。数据来自中国一所大学的 1334 名学生。结果表明，家庭文化资本对学生的学习投入影响最大，而经济资本也发挥了积极作用，社会资本则没有显著影响。学习投入在文化资本与高等教育收益之间的关系以及经济资本与高等教育收益之间的关系中起中介作用。然而，学习投入在社会资本与高等教育收益之间的关系中没有起到中介作用。我们的研究结果表明，我们应该重视学生学习投入的重要性，提高弱势群体的文化资本，并为来自低收入家庭的学生提供经济支持。
