Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Neighborhood Social Cohesion: Examining Their Influence on Students’ Academic Achievement

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints202503.2248.v1
• Publication Date: 2025-04-01T01:29:14Z
• Authors: Yemei Wei; Nayab Ali; Xing Tong; Mansoor Ahmad; Muhammad Asif; Haihua Ying; Marjan Gul
• Keywords: Cohesion (chemistry)

This study seeks to investigate how neighborhood social cohesion influences the academic achievement of students from different genders and family socioeconomic statuses. A cross-sectional design a purposive sampling technique were adopted collect data 448 secondary schools students’. The relationship, strength direction relationship among variables was determined by applying Chi-square, Kendall’s Tau-c tests hierarchical multiple regression tests. results portrayed that children’s significantly positively associated with, willingness neighbours assist one another (P<0.05, Tc = 0.168), neighbourhood trust 0.092) imitate relations 0.310). Furthermore, established status explained variation in children association with cohesion, however, no significant difference observed performance based on gender. In addition, hierarchal analysis family’s status, predictors (P<0.05) students’ achievement. These predictor 48.6 Percent (R2=0.486). study’s yielded ranking arranged most important determinants research region, their level (β 40.09), followed cohesiveness 15.24). showed living cohesive neighborhoods, performed better academically compared non-cohesive neighborhoods. Additionally, suggested higher backgrounds who lived neighborhoods had outcomes than lower backgrounds.