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How Does Family Labor Promote the Ability Devel-

opment of Junior High School Students? 

By Fang, C., & Cao, L. 
Correspondence to: Fang, C., Graduate School of Education, Peking University, 

Beijing, China, 100871. Email: 1906391201@pku.edu.cn  

Trengthening labor education is an indispensable part of the comprehen-

sive development of students. However, the family, as an important field 

of student labor education, is failed to realize the effect. Recently, a study 

published in Journal of Educational Science of Hunan Normal University, on 

the basis of the baseline data of the China Education Panel Survey, analyzing 

the junior high school student’s family labor situation in China by construct-

ing a multi-layer linear model, and then explored the relationship between 

family labor and the development of junior high school student’s ability. 

The results show that: 

 There is a phenomenon of “absence” in family labor education in 

our country. 12.1% of junior high school students do not partici-

pate in family labor, and there are significant differences in the 

family labor time among different characteristics junior high 

school students. 

 There are significant differences in family labor among students 

from different family backgrounds and urban and rural areas. 

Students from disadvantaged family backgrounds and rural stu-

dents have a greater proportion of family labor with a longer time 

than other students. 

 Family labor within one hour can help improve the academic per-

formance and cognitive ability of junior high school students, but 

more than one hour will lead to decreases in grades and cognitive 

ability. 

 Family labor has a significant positive impact on students’ non-

cognitive ability, such as openness, extraversion, agreeableness, 

and a sense of responsibility. It can also reduce neurotic negative 

emotions. 

Therefore, the researchers suggest: 

 Parents should attach importance to labor education and integrate 

labor education into family education. By setting up a good ex-

ample for children by labor practice, parents can subtly nourish 

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the labor character of students, and create a good atmosphere to 

optimize the labor habits of students. 

 Follow the pattern of students’ physical and mental development 

to carry out appropriate family labor. For students with different 

characteristics, parents should allocate an appropriate amount of 

family work that conforms to the law of their physical and mental 

development, rather than allocate some repetitive and heavy phys-

ical labor. The key to family labor is to improve the quality of la-

bor education. 

 All parties should actively build an internal and external inter-

weaving multiple coordination family labor education system 

with family as the main body, school as the guide, and communi-

ty as the support. 

 

Source: Journal of Educational Science of Hunan Normal University, 2021; 

20(02):56-63+89.