Are young people's educational outcomes linked to their sense of control?

Autor/inn/en	Baron, Juan D.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Are young people's educational outcomes linked to their sense of control? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Sind die Bildungsergebnisse von Jugendlichen mit ihrer Kontrollüberzeugung verbunden?
Quelle	Bonn (2010), 37 S.; 463 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 4907
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsmotivation; Sozialisationsbedingung; Familie; Australien; Bildung; Familie; Investition; Schulabschluss; Schulbildung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsertrag; Bildungsertrag; Bildungsabschluss; Schulabschluss; Schulbildung; Peer Group; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Investition; Arbeitspapier; Jugendlicher; Australien
Abstract	"This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the requirements to obtain a university entrance rank. Moreover, those with an internal locus of control who obtain a university entrance rank achieve somewhat higher rankings than do their peers who have a more external locus of control. Not surprisingly, there is a negative relationship between growing up in disadvantage and educational outcomes. However, this effect does not appear to operate indirectly by increasing the likelihood of having a more external locus of control. In particular, we find no significant relationship between family welfare history and young people's locus of control." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch; empirisch-quantitativ; Befragung. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2010/4