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. 2020 Jan-Jul;13(1):19-28.
doi: 10.21500/20112084.4480.

Social Support and Academic Achievement of Chinese Low-Income Children: A Mediation Effect of Academic Resilience

Guangbao Fang  1   2 , Philip Wing Keung Chan  2 , Penelope Kalogeropoulos  2
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Social Support and Academic Achievement of Chinese Low-Income Children: A Mediation Effect of Academic Resilience

Guangbao Fang et al. Int J Psychol Res (Medellin). 2020 Jan-Jul.

Abstract
in English, Spanish

Using nation-wide survey data (N=2328) from China, this study investigates how social support from family, peers, and teachers influence low-income household children's (from 13 to 15 years old) academic resilience, as well as how academic resilience mediates the relationship between social support and children's academic achievement. Structural equation modelling was adopted to analyse the data. The results reveal that (1) low-income household children's family, peer, and teacher support are associated with their academic resilience; (2) peer support and academic resilience of low-income household children significantly relate with their academic achievements; (3) academic resilience plays a full mediation role in teacher support and a partial mediation role in peer support on children's academic achievement. The implications of this study on theory and practice, the limitations, and future research directions are discussed.

Utilizando datos de encuestas a nivel nacional (N = 2328) de China, este estudio investiga cómo el apoyo social de la familia, los compañeros y los maestros influyen en la resiliencia académica de los niños de bajos ingresos (de 13 a 15 años), así como la resiliencia académica interviene en la relación entre el apoyo social y el rendimiento académico de los niños. Se adoptó el modelo de ecuaciones estructurales para analizar los datos. Los resultados revelan que (1) el apoyo familiar, de pares y de maestros de niños de bajos ingresos en el hogar está asociado con su capacidad de resilencia académica; (2) el apoyo entre pares y la resilencia académica de los niños de hogares de bajos ingresos se relacionan significativamente con sus logros académicos; (3) la capacidad de resilencia académica desempeña un papel de mediación total en el apoyo del maestro y un papel de mediación parcial en el apoyo de los compañeros en el rendimiento académico de los niños. Se discuten las implicaciones de este estudio en la teoría y la práctica, además de las limitaciones y las futuras direcciones de investigación.

Keywords: Academic achievement; Academic resilience; Low-income children; Social support.

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