Oh, the Education (You Think) You'll Have! Relative Deprivation and Students' Academic Expectations, Aspirations, and Attainment

Autor/inn/en	Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Chiang, Yi-Lin
Titel	Oh, the Education (You Think) You'll Have! Relative Deprivation and Students' Academic Expectations, Aspirations, and Attainment
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42 (2021) 7, S.1037-1054 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Nieuwenhuis, Jaap) ORCID (Chiang, Yi-Lin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2021.1959300
Schlagwörter	Expectation; Academic Aspiration; Educational Attainment; Foreign Countries; Socioeconomic Status; Economic Factors; Middle School Students; Disadvantaged Environment; Grade 7; Grade 9; Outcomes of Education; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Expectancy; Erwartung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Ausland; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Ökonomischer Faktor; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	Scholars generally agree that financial deprivation negatively affects students' educational outcomes. However, while absolute levels of resources are important, individuals' perceived relative economic wellbeing also shape their educational outcomes. This article asks whether attending school with peers from comparably richer families is related to adolescents' educational expectations, aspirations, university plans, and university attainment. We test the relative deprivation theory by comparing three different forms of the Yitzhaki Index. Data for this study comes from the Taiwan Youth Project, which consists of two cohorts of adolescents (N = 5098) from 162 middle school classrooms. The results show that relative deprivation in the classroom is negatively related to students' educational expectations, aspirations, and plans to attend university. Yet, relatively deprivation is not associated with higher educational attainment when controlling for absolute measures of family background. These results highlight the need for a more nuanced understanding of perceived relative economic disadvantages in shaping student outcomes. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01