title: International note: Are Emirati parents' attitudes toward mathematics linked to their adolescent children's attitudes toward mathematics and mathematics achievement?
abstract: Drawing on data from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and employing multilevel modeling as an analytic strategy, this study examined the relations of adolescent children's perceptions of their parents' attitudes towards mathematics to their own attitudes towards mathematics and mathematics achievement among a sample of 5116 adolescents from 384 schools in the United Arab Emirates. The results of this cross-sectional study revealed that adolescents who perceived that their parents liked mathematics and considered mathematics was important for their children not only to study but also for their career tended to report higher levels of intrinsic and instrumental motivation to learn mathematics, mathematics self-concept and self-efficacy, and mathematics work ethic. Moreover, adolescents who perceived that their parents liked mathematics and considered mathematics was important for their children's career tended to report positive intentions and behaviors toward mathematics. However, adolescents who perceived that their parents considered mathematics was important for their children's career tended to report higher levels of mathematics anxiety. Finally, adolescents who perceived that their parents considered mathematics was important for their children to study performed significantly better on the mathematics assessment than did their peers whose parents disregarded the importance of learning mathematics.
authors.affiliation: Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Electronic address: sareepattamannil@ecae.ac.ae.
authors.forename: Shaljan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Areepattamannil
authors.affiliation: Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
authors.forename: Myint Swe
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Khine
authors.affiliation: Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Melkonian
authors.affiliation: Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
authors.forename: Anita G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Welch
authors.affiliation: Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
authors.forename: Samira Ahmed
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Al Nuaimi
authors.affiliation: Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
authors.forename: Fatimah F
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Rashad
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D014479:United Arab Emirates
keywords: Adolescents; Attitudes toward mathematics; Mathematics achievement; PISA; Parents; United Arab Emirates