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Relations between young adults’ knowledge and understanding, experiences, and information behavior in personal finance matters
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training Pub Date : 2019-01-10 , DOI: 10.1186/s40461-019-0077-z
Manuel Förster , Roland Happ , W. B. Walstad

BackgroundIn Germany, general secondary education offers few opportunities for young adults to acquire knowledge and understanding of personal finance. Hence, apart from parents’ influence as role models, important influences on young adults’ financial knowledge and understanding likely include their personal experience with financial products and their behavior of informally seeking information about specific financial products.MethodsIn this paper, we investigate the relationships between these latter variables based on a sample of 1108 young adults from Germany, aged 17–25, beginning their studies in higher education. Knowledge and understanding of personal finance was assessed using the German adaptation of the US Test of Financial Literacy. In this paper, we focus on the dimension ‘Banking’ (covering financial investing, saving, using credit). In addition, we surveyed young adults’ experience in basic personal finance matters (e.g., having a bank account, using a credit card, paying for rent) and their information behavior towards specific financial products (e.g., stocks, investment, retirement plans, and insurance).ResultsThe data set was prepared through multiple imputation and analyzed using regression models. The results show clear correlations between knowledge and understanding in the dimension ‘Banking’ and both experience and information behavior in personal finance matters.ConclusionsOur findings illustrate how important it is that young adults obtain experience with and actively inform themselves about financial products, particularly in countries such as Germany where personal finance is not taught extensively and systematically in school.

中文翻译:

年轻人在个人理财方面的知识与理解,经验和信息行为之间的关系

背景技术在德国,普通中学教育为年轻人提供了很少的机会来获取知识和对个人理财的理解。因此,除了父母作为榜样的影响力之外,对年轻人的金融知识和理解的重要影响可能还包括他们在金融产品上的个人经历以及他们非正式地寻求有关特定金融产品信息的行为。后面这两个变量基于德国1108名年龄在17-25岁的年轻人的样本,这些人开始接受高等教育。对个人理财知识和理解的评估采用了德国对美国《金融素养测试》的改编。在本文中,我们专注于“银行业务”这一维度(涵盖金融投资,储蓄,使用信贷)。此外,我们调查了年轻人在基本个人理财事务(例如拥有银行帐户,使用信用卡,支付租金)方面的经验,以及他们针对特定金融产品(例如股票,投资,退休计划和结果数据集是通过多次插补准备的,并使用回归模型进行了分析。结果表明,在``银行''维度中的知识和理解与个人理财事项中的经验和信息行为之间有着明显的相关性。结论我们的发现表明,年轻人获得金融产品的经验并积极地向自己介绍金融产品的重要性,特别是在一些国家例如德国,在学校没有广泛而系统地教授个人理财。我们调查了年轻人在基本个人理财事务(例如拥有银行帐户,使用信用卡,支付租金)方面的经验以及他们针对特定金融产品(例如股票,投资,退休计划和保险)的信息行为。结果数据集是通过多次插补准备的,并使用回归模型进行了分析。结果表明,在``银行''维度中的知识和理解与个人理财事项中的经验和信息行为之间有着明显的相关性。结论我们的发现表明,年轻人获得金融产品的经验并积极地向自己介绍金融产品的重要性,特别是在一些国家例如德国,在学校没有广泛而系统地教授个人理财。我们调查了年轻人在基本个人理财事务(例如拥有银行帐户,使用信用卡,支付租金)方面的经验以及他们针对特定金融产品(例如股票,投资,退休计划和保险)的信息行为。结果数据集是通过多次插补准备的,并使用回归模型进行了分析。结果表明,在``银行''维度中的知识和理解与个人理财事项中的经验和信息行为之间有着明显的相关性。例如德国,在学校没有广泛而系统地教授个人理财。
更新日期:2019-01-10
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