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ArticleFrontiers in sociology2025

Social origin and the intention to enrol in higher education: personality traits as a mechanism of reproduction or mobility?

David Nika, Michael Grüttner, Sandra Buchholz

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Article in Frontiers in sociology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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David NikaGerman Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, Hannover, Germany.
Michael GrüttnerGerman Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, Hannover, Germany.
Sandra BuchholzGerman Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, Hannover, Germany.

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Abstract

A vast amount of research has shown that social inequality in educational attainment is a persistent phenomenon. Sociological research explains unequal educational decisions via primary and secondary effects of social origin, respectively unequal school performance and patterns of educational decision-making. So far, educational sociology has largely ignored the role of personality traits for educational decision-making. Therefore, we extend the sociological perspective on primary and secondary effects of social origin to include personality traits as non-cognitive resources. Three plausible mechanisms could be at work: (1) For students from low social origins, favourable personality traits could compensate for the lack of other important resources and be more important for their study intention (

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educational attainmenthigher education enrolmentpersonality traitsresource substitutionstructural equation modelling

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PMID40919236
PMCPMC12412136

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