ATTITUDES TOWARD EDUCATION AS INFLUENCED BY NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: AN APPLICATION OF MULTILEVEL STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING

• Matsuoka Ryoji

  Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University

• Maeda Tadahiko

  Department of Data Science, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Research Organization of Information and Systems

抄録

This study explains neighborhood differences in people's attitudes toward education by utilizing nationally representative data from Japan. While previous studies have shown that individuals' socioeconomic backgrounds are related to their attitudes toward education, no study in Japan has addressed whether neighborhood differences in socioeconomic characteristics influence these attitudes. Therefore, this study aims to clarify whether a neighborhood socioeconomic factor (percentage of college graduates) differentiates people's attitudes toward education by employing multilevel structural equation modeling techniques. Results indicate some neighborhood differences in individuals' attitudes toward education; the percentage of college graduates in each neighborhood is associated with between-neighborhood differences. In other words, individuals living in a neighborhood with a higher percentage of college graduates have more positive attitudes toward education.

収録刊行物

• Behaviormetrika

  Behaviormetrika 42 (1), 19-35, 2015

  日本行動計量学会

キーワード

• Attitudes toward education
• neighborhood
• parental aspirations
• socioeconomic status
• multilevel structural equation modeling

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390282680090373120
• NII論文ID: 130005066299
• DOI: 10.2333/bhmk.42.19
• ISSN: 13496964
• ISSN: 03857417
• Web Site: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.2333/bhmk.42.19.pdf
• Web Site: http://link.springer.com/article/10.2333/bhmk.42.19/fulltext.html
• 本文言語コード: en
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