The Effects of Development-Oriented Aid on Student Development in Higher Education: The Mediating Effect of Psychological Capital

Xiaohong Li () and Yuxi Mu
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Xiaohong Li: School of Public Policy and Management, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Yuxi Mu: School of Public Policy and Management, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 13, 1-18

Abstract: Recently, there has been a transition from guarantee-oriented financial aid to development-oriented aid for economically disadvantaged students. Development-oriented aid aims to enable economically disadvantaged students to acquire long-term and sustainable self-development capacity. However, to what extent and how development-oriented aid promotes student development remains unclear. Identification of the related mechanism can help both students and educators effectively apply development-oriented aid in higher education scenarios. The main objective of this study was to uncover the effect of size, pathways, and mediating factors of development-oriented aid on student development in higher education. Drawing from a sample of 1792 sponsored students at University G in China and applying the structural equation modeling method for quantitative analysis, the results indicate that development-oriented aid directly shows positive influences toward student development and indirectly impacts student development through psychological capital. These results also show that development-oriented aid directly impacts Han Chinese students’ development more than the development of ethnic minority students. The pathways through which development-oriented aid positively influences Han Chinese students and ethnic minority students vary.

Keywords: developmental-oriented aid; psychological capital; student development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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