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Mustafa Özgenel1, Süleyman Avcı2
1Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education, İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, 34303 İstanbul, Türkiye.
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
|December 30, 2025
Summary
Parental and teacher autonomy support significantly boost students' self-regulation, leading to better homework completion and academic achievement. Self-regulation acts as a key mediator, though gender does not influence these positive effects.
Area of Science:
- Educational Psychology
- Adolescent Development
- Academic Achievement
Background:
- Homework is vital for student self-regulation, motivation, and academic success.
- Parental and teacher autonomy support are crucial but their underlying mechanisms need exploration.
- Understanding these dynamics is key to improving student learning outcomes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how parental and teacher autonomy support impact students' self-regulation, homework completion, and academic achievement.
- To examine the mediating role of self-regulation in these relationships.
- To explore whether gender moderates the effects of autonomy support.
Main Methods:
- Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with mediation and multi-group path analysis.
- Data collected from 530 middle school students (5th-7th grade) in Istanbul.
- Assessed parental/teacher autonomy support, student self-regulation, homework behavior, and academic performance.
Main Results:
- Both parental and teacher autonomy support positively predicted students' self-regulation strategies.
- Self-regulation mediated the positive effects of autonomy support on homework completion and academic achievement.
- Gender did not significantly moderate the relationships between autonomy support, self-regulation, and academic outcomes.
Conclusions:
- Autonomy-supportive practices by parents and teachers are essential for fostering students' self-regulation and academic success.
- Self-regulation is a critical mechanism linking autonomy support to improved homework engagement and performance.
- Findings underscore the importance of creating autonomy-supportive environments to enhance students' independent learning skills.
Keywords:
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