Abstract
The purposes of this study were to explore the influence of parenting style (demandingness and responsiveness) and parental involvement (commitment to achievement) on school achievement in adolescents, and to compare the relative importance of the different dimensions of parenting for the achievement outcome. Subjects were 80 ninth-grade boys and girls from a suburban community in the southeast. Questionnaire measures of adolescents' perceptions of maternal and paternal demandingness, responsiveness, and commitment to achievement were designed for this program of research. Boys' reports of both maternal and paternal parenting significantly predicted their achievement outcome, with parental values towards achievement significantly predicting achievement in boys above and beyond dimensions of parenting style. Girls' reports of parenting did not predict their achievement outcome.
Recommended Citation
Paulson, Sharon E.
(1994)
"Parenting Style and Parental Involvement: Relations with Adolescent Achievement,"
Mid-Western Educational Researcher: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/mwer/vol7/iss1/3
