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A Study on the Effect of Family Capital on College Students’ Academic Achievement
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Abstract
The relationship between family socioeconomic status and students’ academic achievement has long been a topic of intense academic interest; however, few studies have combined family economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital as family capital to investigate its influence on students’ academic achievement and how it affects students’ academic achievement. This study investigates the relationship between family capital and the mechanisms of influence on students’ academic achievement in an effort to generate new strategies for enhancing family capital and students’ academic achievement. Using the method of literature review, it was determined that the social, cultural, and economic capital of students’ families were all substantially related to their academic achievement in school, and the greater the family capital, the higher the students’ academic achievement. In this process, academic goals play a mediating function, meaning that family capital not only directly affects students’ academic achievement, but also indirectly affects it by influencing their academic goals.
Keywords
family capital, academic achievement, academic objectives
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Zhu,Y. (2023). A Study on the Effect of Family Capital on College Students’ Academic Achievement. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,16,15-19.
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