什么时候家庭规模才重要? 兄弟姐妹的规模,社会经济地位和英格兰的教育程度
Paula Sheppard1, Christiaan Monden2
1Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Evolutionary human sciences
|August 17, 2023
概括
家庭规模较大与学业成绩较低有关,但父母的投资可以帮助抵消这些影响. 这项研究检查了英格兰的兄弟会规模和GCSE成绩,发现该协会跨越社会经济地位.
科学领域:
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 教育研究教育研究.
背景情况:
- 兄弟姐妹的规模和孩子的结果之间的关系是复杂的,在各个学科中产生相互矛盾的结果.
- 进化模型表明,父母根据投资能力调整生殖决策,不一定在孩子之间平等.
研究的目的:
- 检查英格兰兄弟姐妹规模和学业成绩 (GCSE数学和英语) 之间的关联.
- 调查社会经济地位是否会改变兄弟姐妹规模与学术成果之间的关系.
- 确定家长的投资是否可以减轻家庭规模较大对教育成绩的潜在负面影响.
主要方法:
- 利用了与1989年至1990年出生儿童国家学生数据库相关联的Next Steps研究的数据.
- 采用多层普通最小平方回归模型,对学校产生随机效应.
- 分析了兄弟姐妹规模,社会经济地位,出生顺序和父母投资对学业成绩的影响.
主要成果:
- 兄弟姐妹的规模与学校成绩有显著的关联,这一影响在整个社会经济领域都是一致的.
- 社会经济地位也显示出与学业成绩有显著的关联.
- 虽然出生顺序的关联较弱,但父母的投资似乎部分抵消了大家庭对数学和英语成就的负面影响.
结论:
- 兄弟姐妹的规模是儿童学业成绩的一个重要因素,无论他们的社会经济背景如何.
- 家长的投资在潜在地减轻大家庭对教育成绩的负面影响方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
- 需要进一步研究不同家庭结构中的父母投资策略的细微差别.
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