The Impact of Digital Education on Parental Support for Access to Higher Education under Different Family Economic Background: A Case Study of Nanning City
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This study investigates how economic background affects parental support under the era of digital education, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) offers significant insights into the acceptance levels of digital educational technology among parents and students. Parents' acceptance of such technology directly impacts their support for their children's education. By comparing the differences between high-income and low-income families, targeted strategies are proposed for the government to achieve educational equity. The research conducts a survey using questionnaire on 400 parents from high-income families and 400 parents from the low-income. The study constructs a structural equation model (SEM) to verify model fit. After comparison, the results indicate that there are significant differences in the factors influencing the level of parental support for higher education between high-income and low-income families. For the high-income, cultural capital(β=0.906) and TAM(β=0.509) positively affect parental support, and the low-income, cultural capital(β=0.661), economic capital(β=0.120) and human capital(β=0.283) positively impact parental support, which indicate that the factors that affect the tow kinds of families are totally different. And all the factors will be further analyzed in subsequent sections of this dissertation.
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