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21-12-2022 | Original Paper

Parental Predictors of Children’s Math Learning Behaviours in Different Cultures

Auteurs: Wenke Niehues, Bilge Selcuk, Yasemin Kisbu-Sakarya

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 11/2023

Abstract

Research indicates that parental schoolwork involvement is beneficial for students’ academic functioning when parents facilitate their children’s autonomy and refrain from psychological controlling practices. However, effects of the quality of parental involvement on child learning outcomes may vary due to cross-cultural differences in children’s appraisal and reaction towards these practices. The current study aimed to investigate the link between the quality of parental schoolwork involvement and children’s learning-related behaviours in math, and the mediating role of mother-child conflict around math schoolwork in this link in three cultural groups (i.e., German-Turkish, Turkish and German families). Data were collected from 107 German-Turkish, 426 Turkish and 140 German mothers with children in fifth to eighth grades. After testing measurement invariance of the scales across groups, multi-group structural equation modelling was used to examine the direct and indirect paths between the quality of parental involvement, mother-child conflict and child learning-related behaviours. Results showed that the level of mother-child conflict mediated the link between mothers’ psychologically controlling practices and children’s learning-related behaviours in math in all three groups. No mediation was found for the link between maternal autonomy support and children’s learning-related behaviours in any group. However, the direct path from mothers’ autonomy support to children’s learning-related behaviours was significant in the Turkish and German-Turkish samples. These results suggest that the role of different forms of parental schoolwork involvement in children’s academic functioning is more similar than different across cultural groups.

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Titel: Parental Predictors of Children’s Math Learning Behaviours in Different Cultures
Auteurs: Wenke Niehues
Bilge Selcuk
Yasemin Kisbu-Sakarya
Publicatiedatum: 21-12-2022
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 11/2023
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02501-z

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