Exploring the influence of family socio-cultural factors on students’ learning engagement at school through a mediation model

ABSTRACT

This study explored the effects of family factors on students’ learning engagement at home and at school. A total of 2,476 valid questionnaire (94.61%) responses were collected from students (M _age = 21, SD = 2.83) and their parents (M _age = 41.57, SD = 4.54). The analyses were done by SPSS, PROCESS macro, and JASP software. Results indicated that learning engagement at home partially mediated the effects of family factors on learning engagement at school. Mother’s education level had stronger positive and significant effect than the father’s education level. To enhance students’ learning engagement at school, various family factors (parent-teacher communication) must be addressed.

KEYWORDS:

• Learning engagement
• family income
• parental education level
• parent-teacher communication
• mediation analysis

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Ethics statement

Ethics approval was granted by the ethics committee of the zhejiang normal university’s college of teacher education (protocol code: 20210069) approved in 2021.04.01.

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Funding

No fund received for this study.