The Effects of Career Women on the Learning of Their Children
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Chang, Hsia-Feng
Abstract
Most studies have shown that family background such as parents'' education, ethnicity, occupation, social status, and marital status will affect their children''s academic achievement. Nowadays, maternal role is getting more important in children’s education. In Taiwan, an increasing percentage of mothers is becoming career women from pure housewives. This gives rise to a problem: does mother’s career affect their children''s academic achievement? This study aims to investigate this issue.
Our study investigated the effects of mothers’ careers on the learning performances of their children in Taiwan. We use the penal data compiled from the "Taiwan Educational Panel Survey" (TEPS), in which the same junior high school students were surveyed in 2001 and 2003. We apply the Logistic regression to our empirical model to investigate the effect of mother’s career on their children learning performances in junior high level, and the controlled variables were included, step-by-step, the characteristics of students, school, parents’ background, family values, children extra-curriculum activities and the degree of anti-stress of the student.
The empirical study includes two stages. The first stage explores the effect of mother’s career to their children’s learning performances and result in a significantly positive impact, especially for civic and school faculty mothers. The second stage is to look into the effect of mother’s career multiplied by the degree of anti-stress of the student. As a result, those mothers with high anti-stress children shown a very significant strong effect on their children performances in junior high school, especially for mothers with lower class career. When parents’ education levels were included in the regression, mother’s career became less or no significant effect. In general, father’s education had greater effect on children’s learning performances, but mother’s education still shown some impacts. For children’s leadership and problem-solving ability, mother’s education proved to be more important than father''s education.
Subjects
母親職業
家庭背景
國中生學習表現
Logit模型
Type
thesis
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