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| College students' subjective class positioning and its influencing factors |
| CHEN Youqing, XU Jiang, WANG Wenjuan |
| Institute of Education and Psychology, School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, Jiangsu Province, China |
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Abstract Objective To investigate college students' subjective class orientation and confidence in class mobility, and explore its influencing factors. Methods A selfdesigned questionnaire was used to investigate 2 266 college students, in which the independent variables mainly included three dimensions: family economic status, social status perception, and personal sense of hope, while the dependent variable was subjective class orientation. SPSS 20.0 software was used to analyze the data. Results Most college students' current class orientation was concentrated in the middle and lower classes of society, while ten years later, their class orientation would be mostly concentrated in the middle and upper classes of society. The confidence of class mobility was mainly based on upward shortdistance mobility. In higher income families, college students had higher subjective class position and stronger class mobility confidence. With lower current class positioning, college students perceived higher degree of differentiation between the rich and the poor. With higher perceived degree of class differentiation, college students would have lower class positioning 10 years later. With higher sense of personal hope, college students had higher class positioning and stronger confidence in class mobility. Conclusion College students tend to position the current class in the middle and lower classes of society. The main direction of class mobility confidence is upward mobility, and the short and mediumdistance mobility are the main ones. Family income level, perception of wealth differentiation, perception of class differentiation, and personal hope are important influencing factors for subjective class positioning.
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