ERIC Number: EJ931902
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Oct
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0959-4752
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The Cross-Lagged Relations between Children's Academic Skill Development, Task-Avoidance, and Parental Beliefs about Success
Magi, Katrin; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena; Nurmi, Jari-Erik
Learning and Instruction, v21 n5 p664-675 Oct 2011
This longitudinal study investigated the cross-lagged associations between children's academic skill development, task-avoidant behaviour in the context of homework, and parental beliefs about their child's success from kindergarten to Grade 2. The participants were 1267 children. The children's pre-skills were assessed at the end of the kindergarten year, and math and reading skills at the end of Grade 1 and Grade 2. Parents provided ratings of their beliefs about their children's school success and task-avoidant behaviour with regard to homework at the end of Grades 1 and 2. The results showed that children's math and reading skills predicted children's task-avoidant behaviour regarding homework as rated by mothers, but not by fathers, when autoregressive effects were taken into account. In addition, task-avoidant behaviour predicted the mothers' subsequent beliefs about their children's school success but not vice versa. A reciprocal effect was found between fathers' beliefs about success and children's task-avoidance. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Homework, Mothers, Parent Participation, Kindergarten, Grade 2, Reading Skills, Grade 1, Skill Development, Fathers, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Student Behavior, Mathematics Skills, Resistance (Psychology), Correlation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Grade 1; Grade 2; Kindergarten
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Language: English
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