The current study examines hope and career adaptability as two potential mediators, parent-child closeness as a moderator of the relationship between career-related parental support and life satisfaction. A total of 521 vocational high school students responded to this study. The result revealed that hope and career adaptability independently and…

Positive education has grown and evolved, first as a discipline and then a perspective. Since its first wave of development as an application of positive psychology within education, where the focus was primarily on students, the second wave brought with it recognition of the importance of wellbeing for all those involved in education too. Now…

This qualitative descriptive case study, set in an urban middle school environment, utilized Epstein's Six Types of Involvement as its theoretical framework to explore the complex issue of chronic absenteeism among middle school students. The primary focus of the study was the exploration of parents' perspectives on this issue, particularly in…

Background: Educators have a very important job of moulding learners' lives. However, they cannot do it alone, they need assistance from parents. Every child is different and learns differently and most of the information a child receives comes from their parents. Aim: The article seeks to find ways to help educators to work closely with parents…

To understand whose parenting (mothers vs. fathers) and which type of parenting (warmth vs. hostility) is more important in predicting adolescent aggression, this study applied dominance analysis to evaluate the relative importance of four different parenting dimensions (maternal hostility, paternal hostility, maternal warmth, and paternal…

This qualitative study focuses on the cultural knowledge of low-income single Black mothers and their motherwork in the college planning process of their child(ren). This narrative inquiry will use Black Feminist Theory through a cultural Afrocentric lens. Black Feminist Theory explains systemic racism and other social, cultural, and political…

Purpose: Worldwide, schools implement social-emotional learning programs to enhance students' social-emotional skills. Although parents play an essential role in teaching these skills, knowledge about their perspectives on social-emotional learning is limited. In providing insight into the perspectives of parents from adolescent students this…

This study aimed to investigate the contribution of teacher support and parental monitoring to academic performance over three years, testing the mediating role of self-determined motivation and academic self-efficacy and establishing whether the role of teachers and parents varies over time. A total of 419 adolescents--201 males (48%) and 218…

Many researchers will comment on how vital parent engagement and participation is for student achievement, but there is limited research on this field in the online realm (Borup et al., 2019). This dissertation examined parent engagement at Indiana Connections Academy over the course of the spring semester of 2023 at the school. Since parent…

I investigate the role of parents' investment and child's self-efforts made during adolescence on the intergenerational persistence of economic status. First, empirical evidence suggests that the college-tier a student graduates from significantly affects lifetime income. As seats for prestigious colleges are limited, households compete against…

Drawing on the situated expectancy-value, dimensional comparison theories, and the intersectionality approach, this article examined the changes in adolescents' math and science motivational beliefs, the parental and college correlates of those beliefs, and the differences at the intersection of gender and college generation status (i.e., female…

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) accountability era mandated that teachers accommodate students with varying backgrounds and skill levels. As additional mandates are being placed on educators a growing number of these professionals are assuming teacher-leader roles in order to keep up with the constantly changing demands of their increased…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe the role parents play and the support they need to better help their child with Common Core math homework, using a sample of parents from Arizona K-8 schools. Epstein's model of parental involvement provided the conceptual framework for this study, with a specific focus on the help…

Background: Parents play a key role in the transition process of their children. After high school students with intellectual disabilities leave the school system, they need the cooperation of schools and families to ensure successful employment and independent living. Methods: A case study was conducted in a Taiwanese high school special…

Although evidence generally suggests that parental involvement is beneficial for the academic success of students, much less is known about the determinants of this involvement. The study examined the associations between parental characteristics, beliefs and two types of parental involvement (school-based and home-based) in secondary education in…