Reproduction and Iteration:An Inquiry into the Sibling Education Radiative Effect of First-generation College Students
First-generation college students navigate in multiple environments,including family,school and society,but few studies have delved into the underly-ing mechanisms of inter-individual interactions in their lifelong time,and insuffi-cient attention has been paid to multiple-child families in responding to the new birth policies.To address this knowledge gap,we selected 16 families of first-generation college students from universities included in either Project"985"or Project"211"as participants and employed qualitative research methods to in-vestigate the explicit support and implicit regulation of sibling education radiative effect.Our findings suggest that elder siblings provide younger siblings with sup-plementary resources through explicit support such as emotional and material sup-port as well as key information transmission.Additionally,the reference trajectory and target boundary demonstrated by elder siblings serve as implicit regulation,raising the outcome expectations of younger siblings for"how to get into a key university"and the efficacy expectations of"I can get into a key university"re-spectively.Beyond the cultivation of test-taking habitus and the iteration of paren-ting experiences,different parenting model can create symbiotic or competing sib-ling relationships that lead to differentiated phenomena.Local research breaks through the traditional resource dilution hypothesis.
First-generation College StudentsMultiple-child FamiliesSib-ling Education Radiative EffectFamily ParentingFertility Intention