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ERIC Number: EJ780723
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Dec
Pages: 11
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0197-6664
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School Success, Possible Selves, and Parent School Involvement
Oyserman, Daphna; Brickman, Daniel; Rhodes, Marjorie
Family Relations, v56 n5 p479-489 Dec 2007
Increased parent school involvement is associated with better academic outcomes; yet, proximal contributors to this effect remain understudied. We focus on one potential proximal contributor, youth's positive and negative future self-images or "possible selves," reasoning that if parent school involvement fosters possible selves, then interventions aimed at enhancing youths' possible selves should moderate the negative effect of low parent school involvement. We examine a 2-year follow-up of a randomized clinical trial of a possible self-based intervention (N=239), demonstrating with regression equations that the intervention moderated the association of low parent school involvement with worse grades and less school-engaged behavior. Low parent school involvement negatively influenced achievement among control, not intervention youth, suggesting that school-based, possible self-focused interventions can moderate the undermining effect of low parent school involvement.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Inst. of Mental Health (DHHS), Bethesda, MD.; National Institutes of Health (DHHS), Bethesda, MD.
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