Study on the influence mechanism of learning-application matching of graduates from private institutions: Based on human capital and family capital perspectives

Abstract

In the context of the connotative development of higher education, the match between what college graduates have learned and what they have used and its causes has aroused the attention of society. Human capital and family capital are two important research perspectives when analyzing what graduates learn and what they use. The study selects professional ability, general ability and allocation ability to measure graduates' human capital and analyzes their family capital from three levels: economic, cultural and social. The study verified that human capital plays a mediating role in the influence of family capital on graduates' learning-application matching. Among the factors of human capital, professional ability and allocation ability have a significant positive influence on graduates' learning-application matching while general ability has a negative influence on graduates' learning-application matching. Family economic capital and family cultural capital have a significant positive influence on graduates' learning-application matching. Based on the findings of the empirical study, we propose countermeasures for universities to improve and enhance graduates' learning-application matching.