- VOLUME
- Vol. 16 | (2)
- ABSTRACT FILE
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5. Parents Marital Disruption.pdf
- TITLE
- Parents’ marital disruption and children’s educational aspiration in Korea
- KEYWORDS
- educational aspiration, parental divorce, KELS, growth-curve model, longitudinal analysis
Abstract
In this study, we analyze how parents’ marital dissolution can affect their children’s
educational aspiration from sixth to twelfth grades, using the Korean Educational
Longitudinal Study of 2005 (KELS:2005). Results from a two-level growth-curve model
indicate that the effect of parents’ divorce on children’s educational aspiration is
significantly more detrimental than a parents’ death is. For both genders, the gap in
educational aspirations between adolescents with married parents and those with divorced
parents becomes larger over time. But, this differential appears to be more pronounced
among girls than boys. Also, parents’ socioeconomic resources raise the initial level of
educational aspirations, but they do not affect post-divorce changes.