scholarly journals Credit Card Usage Among College Students in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Yao ◽  
Xiangyi Meng

Credit cards have become a common method of payment for college students in China. It is important that they form good credit card usage behaviors and build a good credit history early in their financial life. Using data collected from 10 universities in China, results of this study found that being financially dependent on their parents is negatively associated with Chinese college students’ ability to pay their credit card bills. The study also found that students with a high level of financial knowledge were less likely to take cash advances on their credit card. Implications for financial educators and parents as well as policymakers were provided.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Chen Zhang ◽  
Lin-Xin Wang ◽  
Kai Dou ◽  
Yue Liang

Cyberbullying is a major youth social problem over the world and it has been associated with a variety of negative outcomes. However, few studies investigated how offline peer victimization affect cyberbullying and the potential relations between family factors and cyberbullying remains unknown. The current study addresses this gap in knowledge by examining the victimized by peers is associated with higher moral disengagement which further promotes college student’s bullying online. A three-wave longitudinal study, each wave spanning six months apart, was conducted in a sample of 521 Chinese college students (Mage = 22.45, SD = 4.44, 59.3% girls). Results of moderated mediation model shown that peer victimization at T1 predicted more cyberbullying at T3 through moral disengagement at T2, after controlling for demographic variables and cyberbullying at T1. T2 moral disengagement significantly mediating the association between T1 peer victimization and T3 cyberbullying. In addition, high level of negative parenting strengthened the effect of moral disengagement at T2 on cyberbullying at T3. The prevention and intervention for both offline and online bullying victimization are discussed.


2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 643-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Pinto ◽  
Diane H. Parente ◽  
Todd S. Palmer

Much has been written in the popular press on credit card use and spending patterns of American college students. The proliferation of credit cards and their ease of acquisition ensure that students today have more opportunities for making more credit purchases than any other generation of college students. Little is known about the relationship between students' attitudes towards materialism and their use of credit cards. A study was conducted at three college campuses in the northeastern part of the United States where a total of 1,022 students were surveyed. Students' attitudes toward use of credit and their credit card balances were evaluated relative to their scores on Richins and Dawson's Materialism Scale (1992). Our findings suggest no significant difference between those individuals scoring high versus low on the Materialism Scale in terms of the number of credit cards owned and the average balance owed. Individuals high on materialism, however, significantly differed in terms of their uses for credit cards and their general attitude toward their use.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Omar A. Abdelrahman

This paper investigates the underlying determinants of consumer’s choices regarding switching credit-card balances. To estimate the likelihood that consumers switch credit cards, two logit models are estimated. Using data from the Consumer Finance Monthly (CFM) of The Ohio State University, the author finds that at the conventional 5 percent level of significance, the following variables have significance: old interest rate, new interest rate, duration of the introductory rate, balances, number of credit cards, homeownership, and age. As expected, interest rates, balances, the duration of new introductory offer rates, and homeownership have the greatest influence on why or why not people switch credit cards. The findings are consistent with the view that consumers make rational decisions in the credit card market, challenging Ausubel’s (1991) argument of credit card consumer irrationality and Calem and Mester’s (1995) empirical finding that credit card rates are sticky because consumers are irresponsive to rate cuts.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanfa Tan ◽  
Chienchung Huang ◽  
Yun Geng ◽  
Shannon P. Cheung ◽  
Shuyan Zhang

Psychological well-being is an important indicator of well-being and has been found to be associated with a multitude of positive life outcomes. Using data collected from 1,871 Chinese college students from September 23 to October 5, 2020, this study examined students' psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic and investigated how resilience and pandemic-related environmental stress may affect psychological well-being. Results showed that resilience had strong positive effects on psychological well-being during the pandemic. Meanwhile, environmental stress had a moderate effect and marginally reduced psychological well-being. The magnitudes of the estimates suggested that increasing resilience can effectively buffer the negative effect of environmental stress on psychological well-being.


2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill M. Norvilitis ◽  
Wesley Mendes-Da-Silva

Although research on credit card debt in developed countries has identified predictors of debt among<br />college students, it is unknown whether these same predictors apply in emerging markets, such as<br />Brazil. To examine this issue, a total of 1257 college students, 814 from Brazil and 443 from the United<br />States, participated in a study exploring the utility of a theory of planned behavior as a predictor of<br />credit card debtand student loans among college students, as well as perceived financial well-being.<br />Compared to the Brazilian participants, the American sample was more financially self-confident,<br />reported better financial well-being, and was more likely to believe that credit cards are negative.<br />Similar predictors of financial well-being emerged in the samples. Specifically, parenting practices<br />related to money and better self-reported delay of gratification are related to more positive financial<br />attitudes and lower levels of debt. Although the debt to income ratio among card holders was similar,<br />Brazilian students held more credit cards than American students. Greater delay of gratification was<br />related to lower levels of student loans in the United States, but there were no significant predictors of<br />student loans in Brazil.


2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 1703-1729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R Knittel ◽  
Victor Stango

We test whether a nonbinding price ceiling may serve as a focal point for tacit collusion, using data from the credit card market during the 1980’s. Our empirical model can distinguish instances when firms match a binding ceiling from instances when firms tacitly collude at a nonbinding ceiling. The results suggest that tacit collusion at nonbinding state-level ceilings was prevalent during the early 1980’s, but that national integration of the market reduced the sustainability of tacit collusion by the end of the decade. The results highlight a perverse effect of price regulation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Mallika Appuhamilage Kumudini Sriyalatha

This study examines the factors that influence the attitude of customers toward utilization of credit cards among academics at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. 236 questionnaires were distributed through Google forms among academics in the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce and 94 respondents have replied questionnaire back. Sample of the study is selected based on purposive sampling method.The factors which are included in this study are availability of information, perceived usefulness, and characteristics of card issuers, general satisfaction and card use intension. Multiple regression analysis is used to determine the most contributory factor that best predict the attitude toward using credit cards. According to the results of the study the most influential variable on attitude towards credit card usage is card used intention followed by perceived usefulness and availability of information. The most influential variable is explained 47.4% of the variation in the attitude towards usage of credit cards and the adjusted R2 also indicates that the model has good fit: 52.5% variation in attitude towards credit card usage is explained by estimated regression equation.Keywords: Attitude, Credit Card, Academics, Sri Lanka


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Yogiek Indra Kurniawan ◽  
Tiyssa Indah Barokah

A credit card is a device payment issued by the bank certain made of plastic and useful as a tool payment on credit carried out by the owner of the card or in accordance with the name of listed in a credit card is on when making purchases goods or services. The problems facing in giving a credit cards to customers bank that have signed up is difficult to determine the category of a credit cards in accordance with the customer bank. By doing this research is expected to facilitate the bank or the analysis to determine the category of a credit card to customers bank right. The research used is by applying methods K-Nearest Neighbor to classify prospective customers in the making a credit card in accordance with the category of  customers by using data customers at the Bank BNI Syariah Surabaya. A method K-Nearest Neighbor used to seek patterns on the data customers so established variable as factors supporters in the form of gender, the status of the house, the status, the number of dependants (children), a profession and revenue annually. The results of this research shows that an average of the value of precision of 92%, the value of recall of 83%, and the value of accuracy of 93%. Thus, this application is effective to help analyst credit cards in classifying customers to get credit cards that appropriate criteria.


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