Competition and game-playing: The academic returns and mental health costs of private tutoring

IF 1.4 4区 社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY 社会 Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1177/2057150X231165143
Qian Zhang, Yayi Gao
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Given the intense academic competition in China, we ask the question of whether the academic returns to private tutoring come at the expense of students’ mental health. This topic involves the investigation and analysis of the dual effect of private tutoring. By using China Education Panel Survey data for 2014 and 2015, this study consistently finds that although investing time in private tutoring can boost academic achievement, it has a significant negative impact on students’ mental health. With an increase in average time spent and proportional participation in tutoring at the class level, the positive effect of the time invested in after-school tutoring on academic performance continues to weaken while the negative impact on mental health is gradually enhanced for a given individual. The main triggers for the worsening of mental health are the weakening of the social comparison effect as well as the enhancement of the role stress effect and the sleep deprivation effect.
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竞争与博弈:私人辅导的学术回报与心理健康成本
鉴于中国激烈的学术竞争,我们提出这样一个问题:私人辅导的学术回报是否以牺牲学生的心理健康为代价?本课题涉及对私教的双重效果进行调查和分析。通过2014年和2015年的中国教育小组调查数据,本研究一致发现,尽管投入时间进行私人辅导可以提高学习成绩,但对学生的心理健康有显著的负面影响。随着班级平均辅导时间和参与比例的增加,课后辅导时间对学业成绩的积极影响持续减弱,而对心理健康的负面影响逐渐增强。社会比较效应的减弱、角色压力效应和睡眠剥夺效应的增强是大学生心理健康状况恶化的主要诱因。
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社会 Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)
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期刊介绍: The Chinese Journal of Sociology is a peer reviewed, international journal with the following standards: 1. The purpose of the Journal is to publish (in the English language) articles, reviews and scholarly comment which have been judged worthy of publication by appropriate specialists and accepted by the University on studies relating to sociology. 2. The Journal will be international in the sense that it will seek, wherever possible, to publish material from authors with an international reputation and articles that are of interest to an international audience. 3. In pursuit of the above the journal shall: (i) draw on and include high quality work from the international community . The Journal shall include work representing the major areas of interest in sociology. (ii) avoid bias in favour of the interests of particular schools or directions of research or particular political or narrow disciplinary objectives to the exclusion of others; (iii) ensure that articles are written in a terminology and style which makes them intelligible, not merely within the context of a particular discipline or abstract mode, but across the domain of relevant disciplines.
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