Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education: College Prestige Hierarchy and Educational Assortative Mating in China

Feng, Acton Jiashi

doi:10.1215/00703370-9656369

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“…We used a cross-sectional survey method to collect data from university students. In general, under China's key university system, differences have been noted in the mental health changes experienced by students attending key and regular universities (Xin et al, 2012;Feng, 2022). We were aware that this may lead to a difference in the prevalence of academic burnout among students at these different types of universities.…”

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How physical exercise impacts academic burnout in college students: The mediating effects of self-efficacy and resilience

Chen

Liu²,

Mou³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Background and aimsAcademic burnout is harmful to college students, their institutions of learning, and society at large. While research has shown that physical exercise may be associated with reduced academic burnout, the underlying mechanisms require further exploration. This study explored the relationship between physical exercise and academic burnout in a sample of college students, with a focus on the serial mediating roles of self-efficacy and resilience.MethodsThis study adopted a cross-sectional survey approach among a sample of undergraduate college students in China. We recruited 1,270 participants in the second half of the 2021–2022 academic year (476 men and 794 women), all of whom completed questionnaires containing the Physical Activity Rating Scale, Academic Burnout Scale for College Students, 10-item General Self-Efficacy Scale, and 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. We then subjected the collected data to a series of statistical analyses.Results and conclusionPhysical exercise was significantly and negatively associated with academic burnout and its three subfactors (i.e., emotional exhaustion, improper behavior, and low personal achievement). Participants in the high physical exercise group showed lower levels of academic burnout than those in the moderate and low physical exercise groups. Finally, our serial mediation model showed that physical exercise had a significant direct effect on academic burnout (β = −0.1104, 95% CI = [−0.1421, −0.0791]) in addition to significant indirect effects on academic burnout via self-efficacy and resilience (β = −0.0802, 95% CI = [−0.1088, −0.0527]); the more exercise participation, the lower the academic burnout among college students. These findings suggest that physical exercise is an important interventional target when aiming to reduce academic burnout.

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confidence: 93%

How physical exercise impacts academic burnout in college students: The mediating effects of self-efficacy and resilience

Chen

Liu²,

Mou³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…For instance, Billédi (1989, p. 328) defines prestige as "the respect of someone's knowledge, expertise or possession of specially valued talents" in the context of occupational prestige. Other scholars studied linguistic prestige (social prestige of a language) (O 'Donnell, 1988), brand prestige (Tuškej & Podnar, 2018), higher education prestige (Feng, 2022). Prestige is related to success since it can signify that an individual is successful, that an individual possesses certain prestigious belongings or has certain personal qualities that are socially respectable.…”

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Using free-listing technique to develop measures of group consensus: the case of language choice in Ukraine

Kuchynskyi

2022

NRPS

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Free-listing is a useful qualitative technique suitable for exploring how groups of individuals think about a cultural domain and define its focal features. This tool is also well-adapted for identifying shared collective priorities which makes free-listing a helpful tool for ethnographers and students of culture who are often lacking this important information at the beginning of the project or have no fast way of acquiring it by other ethnographic means. One of its advantages includes its ability to elicit emic categories in the data at the early stages of fieldwork, thus securing the data quality in addition to its richness. The present study (N = 1253) conducted in January 2021 is part of a larger project merging cultural characteristics and electoral behavior. The data fragment presented in the paper showcases the utility of a free-listing technique for studying consensual beliefs relevant to language-based cultural identity in a sample of Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking Ukrainians. The study this data was collected for explores whether the territorial cleavage in electoral behavior and language divide as a part of it (Russian vs. Ukrainian) in Ukraine signal consistent differences in underlying shared collective beliefs about success and prestige. The preliminary analysis of free-listed items and emerging categories suggests that there are no substantial differences between the language-based groups regarding the beliefs about success and prestige that lie outside the territorial cleavage whereas substantial differences were identified within cleavage-related categories.

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“…The dis tinc tion between expan sion and dif fer en ti a tion pro vi des impor tant insights, espe cially when the growth of less selec tive insti tu tions pro motes an increase in the num ber of peo ple with higher edu ca tion (Arum et al 2007:5). Although they only indi rectly addressed the topic, a few stud ies have found that col lege selec tiv ity is asso ci ated with mar ry ing spouses from post sec ond ary insti tu tions with sim i lar aca demic selec tiv ity (Arum et al 2008;Feng 2022;Uchikoshi and Raymo 2021). These results sug gest that grad u ates of selec tive insti tu tions are more likely to seek mar riage part ners who are col lege grad u ates of sim i larly ranked insti tu tions to main tain social bound aries, which is con sis tent with the exclu siv ity hypoth e sis.…”

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Explaining Declining Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan

Uchikoshi

2022

Demography

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Research on educational assortative mating has devoted much attention to educational expansion but has been less focused on a concurrent trend of importance: growing differentiation among higher education institutions. In this study, I examine whether the bifurcation between high- and low-tier institutions in the context of high participation in tertiary education may clarify the mixed evidence on educational homogamy trends across countries. I apply log-linear and log-multiplicative models to analyze trends in educational assortative mating in Japan, which is characterized by a clear, widely acknowledged hierarchy of institutional selectivity. I find that the odds of homogamy are higher among graduates of selective universities than among graduates of nonselective universities. Further, assortative mating trends among graduates of selective and nonselective universities have diverged in recent years. This latter finding perhaps reflects that with the more rapid increase in the share of female students enrolled in less selective institutions, their opportunities to “marry up” have decreased. Results point to the importance of the growing heterogeneity of institutional characteristics, which was obscured in earlier studies, for understanding the impact of educational assortative mating on economic inequality.

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Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education: College Prestige Hierarchy and Educational Assortative Mating in China

Cited by 13 publications

References 72 publications

How physical exercise impacts academic burnout in college students: The mediating effects of self-efficacy and resilience

How physical exercise impacts academic burnout in college students: The mediating effects of self-efficacy and resilience

Using free-listing technique to develop measures of group consensus: the case of language choice in Ukraine

Explaining Declining Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan

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