The effects of doing part-time jobs on college student academic performance and social life in a Chinese society

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	The effects of doing part-time jobs on college student academic performance and social life in a Chinese society
	Wang, H. Y.; Kong, M. K.; Shan, W. J.; Vong, S. K.
	2010-09-01
Source Publication	Journal of Education and Work
ISSN	1363-9080
Pages	79-94
Abstract	Student employment has been treated as a homogeneous category in studying the effects of doing part‐time jobs on student academic performance or social life. In the present study, using data collected from a well‐known public university in Macau, we treat student employment as a heterogeneous experience and compare the relative importance of various characteristics of student employment in predicting student academic performance and social life. We find that doing part‐time jobs exerts no effect on student academic performance when it is treated as a homogeneous category. When treated as a heterogeneous experience, we find that incentives to work have most effects on student academic performance, followed by whether the jobs provide opportunities for students to develop skills and whether the jobs are related to their fields of study. Inconsistent with most previous studies, we find that doing part‐time jobs actually enriches students' school life and increases their social support network as well. We do find that taking part‐time jobs damages students' relationships with their parents.
Keyword	part‐time employment higher education chinese society
URL	View the original
Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	8953
Document Type	Journal article
Collection	Faculty of Education
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Wang, H. Y.,Kong, M. K.,Shan, W. J.,et al. The effects of doing part-time jobs on college student academic performance and social life in a Chinese society[J]. Journal of Education and Work, 2010, 79-94.
APA	Wang, H. Y.., Kong, M. K.., Shan, W. J.., & Vong, S. K. (2010). The effects of doing part-time jobs on college student academic performance and social life in a Chinese society. Journal of Education and Work, 79-94.
MLA	Wang, H. Y.,et al."The effects of doing part-time jobs on college student academic performance and social life in a Chinese society".Journal of Education and Work (2010):79-94.

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