Multidimensional Models of Parental Involvement and Children’s Academic Achievement: Mediation Analyses
Abstract
This study examined the effects of different types of parental involvement on academic achievement, investigating whether parental involvement moderates the impact of sociodemographic characteristics, and explored mediating pathways of child’s psychological attributes through which parental involvement affects achievement. Using large national birth cohort study data (Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study), this study developed six types of parental involvement guided by Epstein, Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler, and Grolnick and Slowiaczek’s typologies. The six types of parental involvement (Establishing Supportive Environment, Establishing Educational Environment, Parent-Child Interaction, Home-Based Activities, Parent-Teacher Communication, and School-Based Activities) were conceptualized to three levels of involvement: low, medium, and high involvement. This provided an opportunity to assess the impact of low involvement and high involvement separately on achievement. This study found that the strongest predictors of academic achievement among the six types of parental involvement are Establishing Educational Environment and Parent-Child Interaction, and the strongest mediating psychological attributes are Educational Self-Efficacy and Responsibility. One of the important findings from this study is that even though high involvement in Parent-Teacher communication or School-Based Activities are not correlated with higher achievement, low involvements in these resulted in lower achievement, suggesting there is a minimal requirement in these types of involvement. Implications include targeted interventions for parents having difficulty meeting a minimal involvement threshold, as well as a needs assessment of the community, school, and families before developing an intervention.
Subject Area
Educational psychology
Recommended Citation
Yomogida, Maiko, "Multidimensional Models of Parental Involvement and Children’s Academic Achievement: Mediation Analyses" (2022). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI29166726.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI29166726
