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Falanga, Konstantina; Gonida, Eleftheria; Stamovlasis, Dimitrios – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
This study investigated motivational and affective processes behind qualitatively different parental involvement practices in children's homework. Parent motivational beliefs (achievement goals, efficacy beliefs for their children, self-efficacy beliefs) were examined as predictors of parent autonomy support, control and interference, and parent…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parents as Teachers, Parent Child Relationship, Homework
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Ningning Zhao; Diya Dou; Xiaohan Chen; Fumei Chen; Rui Luo; Xiaoqin Zhu; Guo-Xing Xiang – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: The achievement goals set by parents and teachers play a crucial role in shaping students' personal goal orientation and academic performance. Previous studies have revealed discrepancies between achievement goals set by parents and teachers. However, limited research has examined how the congruence of perceived parents' and teachers'…
Descriptors: Parent Aspiration, Teacher Expectations of Students, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation
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Tong, Ying; Lam, Shui-fong – Social Development, 2011
The study investigated how children's willingness to internalize mothers' values affected the associations between mothers' performance goals for their children and the development of children's perfectionism and depression. The participants were 59 Hong Kong fifth graders and their mothers. The results showed that internalization, as a child…
Descriptors: Mothers, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Grade 5
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Eng, Sothy – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
This study examined the associations of parents' cultural beliefs and attitudes with respect to fate, traditional gender roles, aspirations, and involvement in children's academic achievement in Cambodia. Based on Coleman's social capital theory, a good parent-child relationship enables children's school success because resources are created as a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Capital, Role Perception, Adolescents
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Loera, Gustavo; Rueda, Robert; Nakamoto, Jonathan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2011
This study focused on the link between parental involvement in reading and schooling and children's reading motivation. The sample consisted of 128 low-income Latino students in the second through seventh grade and their immigrant parents. The specific questions addressed were: (1) How involved are Latino parents in their children's schooling and…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Reading Motivation, Parent School Relationship, Hispanic Americans
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Ice, Christa L.; Hoover-Dempsey, Kathleen V. – Education and Urban Society, 2011
A notable increase in the number of U.S. families choosing to homeschool their children in recent years has underscored the need to develop more systematic knowledge about this approach to education. Drawing on a theoretical model of parental involvement as well as research on families' social networks, this study longitudinally examines home- and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Home Schooling, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement
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Xu, Min; Kushner Benson, Susan N.; Mudrey-Camino, Renee; Steiner, Richard P. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2010
This study examined the relationship between parental involvement, self-regulated learning (SRL), and reading achievement through analyzing the fifth grade data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K). The results identified six dimensions of parental involvement that are likely to foster SRL of fifth…
Descriptors: Homework, Extracurricular Activities, Reading Achievement, School Involvement
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Ng, Florrie Fei-Yin; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Lam, Shui-fong – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The authors examined cultural differences in parents' responses to their children's performance. In Study 1 (N=421), Chinese 5th graders reported that their parents de-emphasized their academic success and emphasized their academic failure, whereas their American counterparts reported that their parents did the opposite. This partially accounted…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 4, Grade 5, Cultural Differences