High-school predictors of university achievement: Youths' self-reported relationships with parents, beliefs about success, and university aspirations.
Associations between youths' reported relationships with their parents, beliefs about how success is attained, educational aspirations, and university completion were examined. Data come from the German Socioeconomic Panel. At age 17, youth (n = 3284) reported on their relationships with their parents, beliefs about success, and educational aspirations. University completion was assessed up to eight years later. At age 17, perceptions of parental warmth and interest in youths' academics were associated with beliefs that success is due to merit (positively) and that success is due to external factors or dominance over others (negatively). Beliefs that success is due to merit and external factors were associated with educational aspirations positively and negatively respectively. Educational aspirations positively predicted university completion up to eight years later. Relationships with parents had stronger associations with achievement when parents completed a university degree; beliefs about success had stronger associations with aspirations when parents did not.
University of California Irvine, USA. Electronic address: jskay@uci.edu.
Joseph S
JS
Kay
Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA.
Jacob
J
Shane
University of California Irvine, USA.
Jutta
J
Heckhausen
D000293:Adolescent; D001240:Aspirations, Psychological; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D057566:Self Report; D012930:Social Dominance; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
Academic achievement; Beliefs about success; Parent–child relationships