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Long, Haiying; Pang, Weiguo – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2016
This study examines direct and indirect effects of family socioeconomic status (SES) and parental expectations on adolescents' mathematics and problem-solving achievement in mainland China. SES here is composed of family wealth, home educational resources, and parental education. Over 5,000 ninth-grade students in 5 geographical districts of China…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Parent Aspiration, Grade 9, Parent Background
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Otis, Kristin L.; Huebner, E. Scott; Hills, Kimberly J. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2016
Psychology has recently increased attention to identifying psychological qualities in individuals that indicate positive mental health, such as hope. In an effort to understand further the origins of hope, we examined the relations among parental attachment, stressful life events, personality variables, and hope in a sample of 647 middle school…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Psychological Patterns, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
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Froiland, John Mark; Peterson, Aubrey; Davison, Mark L. – School Psychology International, 2013
Building on social-cognitive theory and the expectancy-value theory, this study indicated that early parent expectations for children’s post-secondary educational attainment have a stronger effect on 8th-grade achievement than home-based parental involvement. With a nationally representative sample of kindergarten students and their parents in the…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Expectation, Educational Attainment, Academic Achievement
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Pepe, Alessandro; Addimando, Loredana – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2014
The present paper examines the influence of parent's demographics (gender and educational level) and a contextual variable (school grade) on counterproductive parents' behavior during interaction with teachers. Data were gathered by administering the Italian version of the Challenging Parent Standard Questionnaire (Pepe 2010) to a sample of…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Parents, Individual Characteristics, Gender Differences