英文摘要 |
Drawing upon the social capital theory from Coleman, the present study referred to Wisconsin model and used structure equation model to analyze data in 2005 and in 2007. Data from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey (TEPS) contained 19,474 high school students and their parents. This study aimed to find the direct and indirect effects of family socioeconomic status (SES) on educational aspirations and the mediating effects of three kinds of social capital on educational aspirations. Furthermore, the difference of the path of influencing educational aspirations between rural and non-rural high school students was also explored. The results were as follows. First, family SES influenced both social capital and educational aspirations, and parents’ expectations and parent-adolescent interaction were mediators between family SES and educational aspirations. Second, the impact of social capital was context dependent. The main reason that rural students educational aspirations were lower than non-rural students was that intergenerational closure had different links to educational aspirations of Taiwanese eleventh graders. |