Academic Pressure or Emotional Detachment? The Complex Effect of Compulsory Boarding Due to the School Merger Policy (Poster 51): Division C - Section 2b: Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts, Stage 1, 8:30 AM

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Abstract

Using 738 samples from China Family Panel Studies in 2016 and 2018, this study employed DID model to explore the impact of boarding on the academic pressure of students in rural primary and secondary schools after the implementation of school merger policy from the emotional and spatial distance perspective. The results are robust when subject to Propensity Score Matching and PSM-DID and random sampling tests. Further analysis reveals that forced boarding would intensify academic pressure by impairing students' emotional experiences. The increase in parent-child emotional distance will negatively strengthen the impact of boarding on students' learning pressure, while from the perspective of spatial distance, students who live far away from their parents due to boarding face greater learning pressure.

Author

• Siyi Wang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics