Parent Academic Involvement as Related to School Behavior, Achievement, and Aspirations: Demographic Variations Across Adolescence

• Published in: Child development Vol. 75; no. 5; pp. 1491 - 1509
• Main Authors: Hill, Nancy E., Castellino, Domini R., Lansford, Jennifer E., Nowlin, Patrick, Dodge, Kenneth A., Bates, John E., Pettit, Gregory S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing 01.09.2004; Blackwell Publishers; Blackwell; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Academic Aspiration; Academic education; Achievement; Adolescent; Adolescents; Aspirations; Aspirations (Psychology); Behavior; Behavior Problems; Behavioural disorders; Biological and medical sciences; Career aspirations; Child Behavior Disorders - psychology; Child development; Classroom behaviour; Demographics; Demography; Educational psychology; Empirical Articles; Ethnic differences; Ethnic Groups; Ethnicity; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Grade Point Average; Home school relationship; Humans; Individual Characteristics; Level of education; Male; Mathematics; Mothers; Parent Education; Parent Participation; Parent-Child Relations; Parental education; Parental participation; Parents; Parents & parenting; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Pupil and student. Academic achievement and failure; Racial Differences; Schools; Secondary Education; Sociodemographic aspects; Socioeconomic status; Teenagers; USA; Human; Academic achievement; School adaptation; Adolescent; Parent teacher relation; Aspiration level; Parent child relation
• ISSN: 0009-3920; 1467-8624
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00753.x

A longitudinal model of parent academic involvement, behavioral problems, achievement, and aspirations was examined for 463 adolescents, followed from 7th (approximately 12 years old) through 11th (approximately 16 years old) grades. Parent academic involvement in 7th grade was negatively related to 8th-grade behavioral problems and positively related to 11th-grade aspirations. There were variations across parental education levels and ethnicity: Among the higher parental education group, parent academic involvement was related to fewer behavioral problems, which were related to achievement and then aspirations. For the lower parental education group, parent academic involvement was related to aspirations but not to behavior or achievement. Parent academic involvement was positively related to achievement for African Americans but not for European Americans. Parent academic involvement may be interpreted differently and serve different purposes across sociodemographic backgrounds.