Psychological Science ›› 2013, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 899-903.

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Parental involvement and Vocational School Students’ academic engagement: the moderation role of parenting style

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  • Received:2012-03-14 Revised:2012-11-17 Online:2013-07-20 Published:2013-07-09

中职生家长投入与子女学业投入的关系:教养风格的调节作用

吴妮妮1,姚梅林2   

  1. 1. 北京师范大学心理学院;应用实验心理北京市重点实验室;香港中文大学心理系
    2. 北京师范大学
  • 通讯作者: 姚梅林
  • 基金资助:
    教育部人文社会科学研究“通过服务性学习提升可迁移的学习能力的研究;国家科技支撑计划课题“基于学校-家庭一体化的纵向心理健康教育和心理疏导的应用示范研究

Abstract: Parent involvement refers to parents involve in children’s schooling. The result of parent involvement on children’s academic area was mixed. Previous studies indicated the role of parenting style in children’s academic development; however, few of them explored the effect of parenting style on the relationship between parent involvement and children’s academic engagement. Moreover, Vocational School Students, as the lost behind students in academic domain, may need more positive support from parents due to their negative experience in school, but the empirical study about Vocational school students is sparse. Hence, the present study aims to investigate relationship among parent involvement, parenting style and Vocational School Students’ academic engagement, tries to identify the mechanism underlie the effect of parent involvement. Parent involvement and parents’ autonomy support/controlling questionnaire as well as academic engagement questionnaire were administered to 513 Vocational School Students and 672 high school students from 18 schools. The Cronbach’s Alpha for the three questionnaires is 0.93, 0.87, and 0.82 respectively. Results indicated that :1. Social Economic Status (SES)of vocational School Students was significantly lower than high school students (t(1183)=16.35,P<0.00); 2. Parent involvement of Vocational School Students involved less than their counterpart of high school students (t(1183)=5.318,P<0.001); Hence,we can infer that one of the reason for the low level parent involvement in Vocational School may due to their low SES. Parents with low SES may lack of enough skill and knowledge in involving in children’s schooling. 3. Both parent involvement of Vocational School and high school students showed similar types of involvement. Parents involved most in daily care(for vocational school students=3.08±0.79;high school students=3.36±0.76),learning at home was the second, collaboration with community was the last, which suggested that parents in China tend to involvement at home rather than collaboration with school and community due to parents belief towards learning and the insufficient system among parent, school and community. 4. The effect of parent involvement on children’s academic engagement was moderated by parents’ autonomy-supportive/controlling style. The type of learning at home and decision making significantly predicted student’s academic engagement under the autonomy-supportive parenting style(simple slope=0.339, t=7.34,p<0.001, for learning at home;simple slope=1.19,t=3.56,p=0.004,for decision making), whereas this effect was not found in the controlling parenting style. The present study demonstrated the moderation role of autonomy-supportive/controlling parenting style in parent involvement and Vocational School Students’ academic engagement. One the one hand, it portrait a picture of parent involvement of Vocational School Students;On the other hand,it identified the mechanism of parents involvement , highlighting the moderation role of parenting style in the effect of parent involvement in academic engagement.

Key words: Vocational School Students, parent involvement, academic engagement, parenting style, SES

摘要: 中职生的家庭资源是影响其学业发展的重要因素。本研究调查了国内8个省市1185名中职生和高中生,探讨了中职生家长投入的现状特点及其与教养风格、学业投入的关系。结果发现:中职生家长投入水平显著低于高中生家长;家长教养风格(自主支持/控制)调节了家长投入对中职生学业投入的预测作用。在自主支持的教养风格条件下,家长的在家辅导、参与决策能显著预测学生学业投入的水平,而在控制的教养风格条件下则不成立。

关键词: 中职生, 家长投入, 学业投入, 教养风格, SES