Family Background, Parent-child communication and Children’s Academic Outcomes in China: Empirical Analysis Using Data from CPFS 2018
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.223How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Family Social Economic Condition; Education Stratification; Parent-child communication; Parent Educational Values
- Abstract
Studies of education stratification in China has not investigated the roles of family SES and parent-child communication styles in children’s academic achievement. Using data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of 2018, the study focuses on how parent’s communication affect children’s academic performance net of the influence of family SES, and whether parent’s communication style absorbs part of the association between parent’s education value and children’s academic performance. Empirical results from multivariate regressions reveal a larger effect of parent’s proactive communication on children’s Chinese and Math performance, compared to the associations between family SES and children’s outcomes. Besides, parent’s proactive communication absorbs nearly all effect of parent’s higher educational value on children’s academics. Given that large mediation effect, it is likely that parents who care more about education can mainly boost the children’s academic outcomes via improved communications, rather than other mechanisms. The study challenges past research of educational stratification in China which solely stress on material mechanisms, such as educational expenditure.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Tianyang Miao PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - Family Background, Parent-child communication and Children’s Academic Outcomes in China: Empirical Analysis Using Data from CPFS 2018 BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1313 EP - 1318 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.223 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.223 ID - Miao2021 ER -