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• Resource or risk? The role of higher education parental involvement in students’ future-aware work ethic

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  Cintia Csók

  Viktória Lánczi

  Katalin Pallay

  Anett Hrabéczy

  Ildikó Orosz

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  One of the key determinants of higher education students’ academic progress is future-oriented work ethic, which can be reflected in persistence in pursuing long-term goals, goal-directed effort, and disciplined work practices. The aim of this study is to examine how different patterns of parental involvement in higher education are associated with students’ future-aware work ethic and how these forms of involvement function as either resources or risk factors in its development. The analysis is based on a secondary examination of data from the 2023–2024 survey of the MTA–DE Public Education Development Research Program (N = 1,336), conducted among higher education students in Hungary and Hungarian minority regions of the Carpathian Basin. To identify patterns of parental involvement, cluster analysis was applied, followed by an examination of the relationship between the identified clusters and the studied attitude using analysis of variance and two-step linear regression models. The findings indicate that parental involvement does not exert a uniform effect on students’ future-oriented work ethic. Students with highly involved parental backgrounds are characterized by significantly higher levels of future-oriented work ethic, and this association remains robust even after controlling for socio-demographic background variables. In contrast, ambivalent parental involvement shows a consistently negative relationship with the examined attitude. The effect of low parental involvement weakens when background factors are taken into account, suggesting a mediating role of social background. Overall, the results highlight that the quality and patterns of parental involvement play a decisive role in shaping this form of work ethic: supportive and consistent parental engagement can be interpreted as a resource, whereas ambivalent involvement constitutes a risk factor.

• Myth or Reality? Mobility Trends among Recent Graduates of Different Fields of Study

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  Mihály Fónai

  Viktória Lánczi

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  290

  The paper focuses on the intergenerational mobility processes in Hungarian higher education over the past decade. Its purpose is to explore these processes and to analyse the differences between the fields of study. The second-generation mobility theories, which serve to be the theoretical background of this paper, focus on the differences between income, education, occupational groups and social classes in connection with status attainment and mobility. Among the mobility theories relating to higher education, theories analyzing inequalities are studied, to discover whether they are found in Hungarian higher education („Maximally Maintained Inequality”, MMI and the theory of „Effectively Maintained Inequality”, EMI). The analysis also covers the „dynastic effects” related to mobility, whether they strengthen or weaken intergenerational processes. The database of the analysis is the Graduate Career Tracking System 2010-2021.