title: Predicting school adjustment from multiple perspectives on parental behaviors.
abstract: Past research supported the importance of parental autonomy support, involvement, and structure for student outcomes. The goal of this study was to test the contribution of these behaviors from mothers and fathers in predicting adolescents' adjustment in school using a multi-informant approach. A sample of 522 adolescents (233 boys, 389 girls), their mothers (n = 535), and fathers (n = 296) participated in the study. Results revealed that parents' self-evaluations explained additional variance in children's school adjustment, over and beyond the contribution of children's evaluation of their parents. Maternal reports on their positive behaviors (autonomy support, involvement, and structure) predicted their child's academic and emotional adjustment while their reported control predicted lower levels of these. Fathers' self-reported positive behaviors predicted academic adjustment while their control predicted lower academic and personal-emotional adjustment. These findings support the importance of multiple assessments of parental behaviors for improving the prediction of adjustment in school.
authors.affiliation: Département des fondements et pratiques en éducation, Faculté des sciences de l'éducation, Université Laval, Canada. Electronic address: Catherine.Ratelle@fse.ulaval.ca.
authors.forename: Catherine F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Ratelle
authors.affiliation: Département d'études sur l'enseignement et l'apprentissage, Faculté des sciences de l'éducation, Université Laval, Canada.
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Duchesne
authors.affiliation: Département des fondements et pratiques en éducation, Faculté des sciences de l'éducation, Université Laval, Canada.
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guay
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D012574:Schools; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Autonomy support; Control; Involvement; Multi-informants; School adjustment; Structure