title: Parental Involvement and Adolescents' Educational Success: The Roles of Prior Achievement and Socioeconomic Status.
abstract: Parental educational involvement in primary and secondary school is strongly linked to students' academic success; however; less is known about the long-term effects of parental involvement. In this study, we investigated the associations between four aspects of parents' educational involvement (i.e., home- and school-based involvement, educational expectations, academic advice) and young people's proximal (i.e., grades) and distal academic outcomes (i.e., educational attainment). Attention was also placed on whether these relations varied as a function of family socioeconomic status or adolescents' prior achievement. The data were drawn from 15,240 10th grade students (50 % females; 57 % White, 13 % African American, 15 % Latino, 9 % Asian American, and 6 % other race/ethnicity) participating in the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002. We observed significant links between both school-based involvement and parental educational expectations and adolescents' cumulative high school grades and educational attainment. Moderation analyses revealed that school-based involvement seemed to be particularly beneficial for more disadvantaged youth (i.e., those from low-SES families, those with poorer prior achievement), whereas parents' academic socialization seemed to better promote the academic success of more advantaged youth (i.e., those from high-SES families, those with higher prior achievement). These findings suggest that academic interventions and supports could be carefully targeted to better support the educational success of all young people.
authors: Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station Stop A2702, Austin, TX, 78712, USA. abenner@prc.utexas.edu.
authors: Aprile D
authors: AD
authors: Benner
authors: Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station Stop A2702, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
authors: Alaina E
authors: AE
authors: Boyle
authors: Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station Stop A2702, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
authors: Sydney
authors: S
authors: Sadler
mesh_terms: D000076363:Academic Success; D000293:Adolescent; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D012923:Social Class; D012951:Socialization; D014481:United States
keywords: Academic achievement; Educational attainment; Parental educational involvement; Socioeconomic status