The role of parents in the ontogeny of achievement-related motivation and behavioral choices

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Label

The role of parents in the ontogeny of achievement-related motivation and behavioral choices

Statement of responsibility

edited by Sandra D. Simpkins, Jennifer A. Fredricks, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles ; with commentary by Aletha C. Huston

Contributor

• Huston, Aletha C.
• Simpkins, Sandra Denise
• Fredricks, Jennifer A.
• Eccles, Jacquelynne S.

Editor

• Fredricks, Jennifer A.
• Simpkins, Sandra Denise
• Eccles, Jacquelynne S.

Writer of added commentary

• Huston, Aletha C.

Subject

• Expectation (Psychology)
• Motivation (Psychology) in adolescence
• Parent and child
• Parental influences
• Youth -- Conduct of life
• Achievement motivation in youth

Language

eng

Summary

This monograph offers a comprehensive test of an important theory of motivation in regard to parents and their children. Parents believe what they do matters. But, how does it matter? How do parents' beliefs about their children early on translate into the choices those children make as adolescents? The study suggests that parents' influence appears primarily for peripheral subjects (sports and music), but not for reading and math raises many issues for further research. The findings demonstrated that: (a) these relations were stronger in the leisure domains than in the academic domains, (b) these relations did not consistently vary based on youth gender, (c) parents were stronger predictors of their children's beliefs than vice versa, and (d) adolescents' beliefs were stronger predictors of their behaviors than the reverse. The findings presented in this monograph extend our understanding of the complexity of families, developmental processes that unfold over time, and the extent to which these processes are universal across domains and child gender

Member of

• Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, v. 80, no. 2

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development,

Series volume

serial no. 317, vol. 80, no. 2