Analysis of the Influence of Academic Anxiety and Family Capital on Students’ Academic Performance from the Perspective of Peer Effect in China

Abstract

In the context of the serious phenomenon of "in-rolling" in China's education sector and the inequality of educational resources, this paper examines the prevalence of academic anxiety and the influence of cohort and family capital on academic performance through a questionnaire survey of young people in Beijing, Tianjin and Hunan. Based on the research method of correlation and regression analysis, the degree of influence and the mechanism of action are explored. Based on the results, it was found that peers had a significant positive effect on students' own academic performance, while academic anxiety and other exogenous variables such as family capital had less significant effects. The analysis of the data suggests that the causes of academic anxiety come from a variety of sources and that exogenous factors such as family economic and cultural capital have become less influential on academic achievement as society develops and young people's thinking improves; changing peers is perhaps the most effective way to intervene on student achievement.