贫困大学生的社会支持网研究

个体的社会支持网可以为人们提供情感、经济、信息等多方面的支持。运用提名法对贫困大学生的社会支持网研究发现,贫困生的社会支持网与非贫困生的社会支持网存在一些共性,如经济支持网与信息支持网规模小于情感支持网和交往支持网。当前,同伴和亲属是社会支持网的主要构成。但与非贫困生比较,贫困生的社会支持网又有不同之处,如密度更小。在趋同性方面,农村籍大学生的支持网中农村籍成员比例显著大于城市籍大学生支持网中农村籍成员比例,贫困生的支持网中贫困者的比例也大于非贫困生支持网中贫困者的比例。各类贫困生在户籍与经济状况方面的异质性都大于其相对应的非贫困生。因而贫困生的社会支持网所能提供的支持也更为不足。应该鼓励师生更主动地为贫困生提供社会支持。

Social Support Networks for Financially Disadvantaged University Students

A person’s social support networks can offer him(her) such supports as emotional aid,financial aid,companionship and information.The study of social support networks for financially disadvantaged university students by name-generator shows that there are some common characteristics between social support networks of financially disadvantaged university students and those of other students.For example,the size of financial aid network and the size of information network are smaller than those of emotional aid network and companionship network.Current friends and family members are the main parts of social support networks.However,comparing with the social support networks for other students,the density of social support networks for financially disadvantaged university students is smaller while their heterogeneity is greater.There are more rural members in rural students′ networks and more financially disadvantaged members in financially disadvantaged students’ networks.As a result,financially disadvantaged university students′ social network can give less supports than other students’ networks.More teachers and college students should be encouraged to offer supports for financially disadvantaged students.