Mediation effects in the relationship between cultural capital and academic outcomes

0546128 - SOÚ 2022 RIV NL eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Raudenská, Petra
Mediation effects in the relationship between cultural capital and academic outcomes.
Social Science Research. Roč. 102, January (2022), č. článku 102646. ISSN 0049-089X. E-ISSN 1096-0317
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-15303S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378025
Klíčová slova: school grades * reading ability * cultural capital * highbrow cultural resources * reading interest * mediation effect * PISA
Obor OECD: Sociology
Impakt faktor: 2.5, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup

Following recent literature, this study focused on the mediating mechanisms through which cultural capital leads to students’ higher grades and academic ability. Structural modeling was applied to 2018 CZ_PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) data and the results showed that students’ family highbrow cultural resources and reading interest have indirect positive effects on their reading ability and school grades via non-cognitive skills (i.e., students’ aspirations and self-concept in reading,). The results also implied that only a negligible part of the relationship between students’ cultural capital and school grades is mediated by teacher-student relationships, which partly questions the core idea of Bourdieu’s cultural reproduction theory. Still, the study suggests that there could be a significant relationship between student’s beaux-arts consumption and their reading skills, however, this association could be rather indirect and mediated by student’s educational aspirations and self-concept in reading. Finally, the results did not reveal any substantial differences in the mediating mechanism for male and female or low-status and high-status students.


Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322688