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Suarez-Valenzuela, Sara; Suárez Riveiro, José Manuel – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2022
Introduction: Numerous researchers have shown the many benefits of academic motivation in educational processes, both at school and at home. Adequate acquisition and development of learning strategies during compulsory secondary education is key to future academic success. The aim of this paper is to explore how academic goals and parenting styles…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Learning Strategies, Secondary School Students, Correlation
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Smith, Vernon L. S.; Smith, Sharlene M.; Bethell, Detra S.; Lapa, Amanda – Professional School Counseling, 2021
This study used a strengths-based approach to examine the distribution of perceived parent involvement factors during high school from the perspective of academically successful Black male college students. Black males enrolled in an undergraduate degree program at a university in the southern region of the United States completed Yan and Lin's…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, High School Students, Undergraduate Students, African American Students
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Kang, Yoonhee – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
This study explores the significance and complexity of time practices and experiences in understanding the emerging identities and aspirations of South Korean pre-college students and their mothers who moved to Singapore for the children's education. I adopt the notion of chronotope, a spatial-temporal frame for a specific type of personhood, to…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Immigrants, Mother Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Hill, Nancy E.; Liang, Belle; Price, Maggi; Polk, Whitney; Perella, John; Savitz-Romer, Mandy – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
In contrast to the focus on short-term, extrinsic goals in our society (e.g., wealth, prestige), positive youth development scholars have highlighted the need for parents and schools to help youths cultivate and plan for long-term, intrinsic, and meaningful goals (i.e., envisioning a meaningful future), arguing that envisioning a meaningful future…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Structural Equation Models, Academic Aspiration, Parent Aspiration
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Hill, Nancy E.; Wang, Ming-Te – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Based on a longitudinal sample of 1,452 African American and European American adolescents and their parents, parenting practices (i.e., monitoring, warmth, and autonomy support) at 7th grade had significant indirect effects on college enrollment 3 years post high school, through their effects on aspirations, school engagement, and grade point…
Descriptors: White Students, High School Students, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
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Ilona, Haapasalo; Raili, Valimaa; Lasse, Kannas – Health Education, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the associations between students' perceptions of the psychosocial school environment, health-compromising behaviours, and selected family factors. The analyses were based on data provided for the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study (2006). Design/methodology/approach: The data were obtained…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Correlation, Health Behavior, Grade 9
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Kao, Tsui-Sui Annie; Salerno, Jennifer – Journal of School Nursing, 2014
Adolescent participation in academic/extracurricular activities is related to fewer diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections during adolescence. The role parents play in motivating participation in such activities is unclear. This mixed-methods study explored parental influences on academic/extracurricular activity participation, and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Extracurricular Activities, Participation, Parent Role
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Henry, Carolyn S.; Merten, Michael J.; Plunkett, Scott W.; Sands, Tovah – Family Relations, 2008
Self-report questionnaire, school records, and census block group data for 502 Latino adolescents in immigrant families were examined using multilevel modeling to test how structural neighborhood adversity, in addition to perceived neighborhood, parental, and adolescent factors, explained grade point average (GPA). The results showed perceived…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Adolescents