کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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884897 | 1471720 | 2015 | 12 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Cross-national study of 496 undergraduates from England, New Zealand and the US.
• Attitudes to debt found to have four factors.
• Factors named Anxiety, Utility-For-Lifestyle, Utility-For-Investment and Awareness.
• Awareness significantly correlated to other factors.
This paper reports the results of a cross-national study spanning England, New Zealand and the United States. A total of 496 first year undergraduates studying business or social science completed a 20-item questionnaire. This focused on their attitudes to their debt incurred while studying, as measured on a five-point Likert scale. A factor analysis model was developed, from which four consistent factors emerged, explaining 45 percent of the variation and consistent between countries. These factors were named: Anxiety, Utility-For-Lifestyle, Utility-For-Investment and Awareness. The first three factors were found to be uncorrelated with each other, but higher Awareness was associated with lower levels of Anxiety and Utility-For-Lifestyle and higher levels of Utility-For-Investment. The relationship with previous studies and implications for theory and practice are discussed.
Journal: Journal of Economic Psychology - Volume 46, February 2015, Pages 62–73