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Xiaorui Huang1, Randall E Schumacker2, Bin-Bin Chen3
1Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China.
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
|July 25, 2022
Summary
Parental involvement in education significantly impacts student success. This study identified four distinct parental involvement styles among Chinese families: supportive, permissive, restrictive, and neglectful, each linked to academic achievement.
Area of Science:
- Educational Psychology
- Sociology of Education
- Family Studies
Background:
- Parental involvement is a critical determinant of students' academic performance.
- Families often exhibit consistent patterns of parental involvement.
- Understanding these patterns is crucial for educational interventions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify and categorize distinct patterns of parental involvement in children's home-based learning.
- To examine the relationship between identified parental involvement styles and students' academic achievement.
- To explore the influence of parental education and family income on these involvement styles.
Main Methods:
- Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was employed to identify parental involvement typologies.
- Discriminant analysis, MANOVA, and post-hoc tests were used for validation and comparison.
- A large-scale representative sample of 12,575 Chinese seventh and eighth-grade students' parents was utilized.
Main Results:
- Four distinct parental involvement latent classes were identified: supportive (20%), permissive (54%), restrictive (8%), and neglectful (18%).
- Statistically significant differences in predictor variables were found across the four latent classes.
- Parental education and family income were significantly associated with these involvement styles, which in turn influenced student academic achievement.
Conclusions:
- Parental involvement in children's learning at home can be empirically classified into four distinct styles.
- These identified styles (supportive, permissive, restrictive, neglectful) have differential impacts on student academic outcomes.
- Socioeconomic factors like parental education and income play a role in shaping these involvement patterns.
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