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- Title
Evaluating Academic and Work-Related Factors in Working Community College Students With and Without Children.
- Authors
Brauer, Megan Crow; Foust, Michelle Singer
- Abstract
Research has indicated that an increasing number of college students work at least part-time, which is particularly true of community college students (Velez et al., 2018). Although balancing school and work is a challenge, adding parenthood creates a major opportunity for conflict for the 22% of undergraduate students who are also parents, nearly half of whom attend community college (Cruse et al., 2019). For the present research, we investigated the differences between working student parents and working students on academic and work-related variables. We surveyed 145 working students, with 30.30% parents, at a Midwest community college and assessed grade point average, family-school conflict, school-family conflict, continuance commitment, job involvement, job performance, and organizational citizenship behaviors. Using independent-groups t tests, we found significantly higher family-school conflict, t(143) = 3.36, p = .001, d = 0.60, school-family conflict, t(143) = 4.81, p < .001, d = 0.92, and continuance commitment, t(143) = 2.41, p = .017, d = 0.43 for working student parents compared to working students. However, analysis of covariance results demonstrated there was no longer a statistical difference in continuance commitment when controlling for age, F(1, 142) = 0.14, p = .706, X² = .001. These results signal both a burden for working student parents and a vital opportunity for employers and colleges to intervene.
- Subjects
COMMUNITY college students; ORGANIZATIONAL citizenship behavior; WORKING parents; JOB involvement; GRADE point average
- Publication
Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 2020, Vol 25, p291
- ISSN
2164-8204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24839/2325-7342.JN25.3.291