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Article: The effect of maternal employment on schoolchildren's educational aspirations in Korea.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Journal of Research in Childhood Education
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Abstract. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships between maternal employment and schoolchildren's educational aspirations in Korea. The sample consisted of 1,294 fifth- and tenth-graders and their mothers. These students in 1996 were attending public schools and living in two-parent families in Taegu, Korea. The results showed that children whose mothers were working full-time had lower educational aspirations, compared with those whose mothers were not in the labor force. Girls whose mothers were working full-time had lower educational aspirations than girls whose mothers were not working. Maternal involvement and parents' educational expectations in ...