A Study of the Effect of Family Structure on Adolescents’ Commitment to Learning

Abstract

Normalized population mobility leads to smaller family sizes, which in turn leads to changes in China's family structure, with nuclear and single-parent families becoming more common. Research has shown that family structure has an impact on parent-child communication and even on adolescents' commitment in learning, and the impact varies across different types of families. This study centers on the keywords of family structure and learning engagement by reading relevant literature in recent years. According to the study, it is found that adolescents aged 13-15 years old lack communication with their parents, which is often caused by inappropriate communication between the two parties, or other related reasons. Compared with other family structures, parent-child communication in nuclear families is more perfect because they have a simple structure, a better family atmosphere, and parents spend more time with their children. However, parent-child communication in single-parent families is less effective, and parental divorce also has a certain impact on communication, which affects the children's learning efficiency. From the above, it can be seen that family structure affects parent-child relationship, and a good family structure is conducive to the establishment of healthy parent-child relationship.