Mothers and fathers - who matters for STEM performance? Gender-specific associations between STEM performance, parental pressure, and support during adolescence.

Autor/inn/en	Hoferichter, Frances; Raufelder, Diana
Titel	Mothers and fathers - who matters for STEM performance? Gender-specific associations between STEM performance, parental pressure, and support during adolescence.
Quelle	In: Frontiers in education, 4 (2019) 14, S. 1-10 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Zusatzinformation	Forschungsdaten, Studiendetails und Erhebungsinstrumente
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2504-284X
DOI	10.3389/feduc.2019.00014
Schlagwörter	Gender; Elternverhalten; Leistungsdruck; Wahrnehmung; Junge; Mutter; Vater; Geschlechterstereotyp; Geschlechtsspezifischer Unterschied; Biologieunterricht; Junge; Mädchen; Mathematikunterricht; Mutter; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Notendruck; Vater; Wahrnehmung; Schulleistung; Elternverhalten; Geschlechterstereotyp; Leistungsdruck; Unterstützung; Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Schuljahr 08; Schulische Motivation; Schulleistung; Biologieunterricht; Mathematikunterricht; Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Mathematische Kompetenz; Notendruck; Naturwissenschaftliche Kompetenz; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Elternwille; Unterstützung; Gender; Mädchen
Abstract	Research has shown that parental pressure is negatively whereas parental support is positively associated with various scholastic outcomes, such as school engagement, motivation and achievement. However, only few studies investigate boys' and girls' perception of mother and father pressure/support in detail. This might be particularly essential when it comes to girls' and boys' achievement in STEM subjects, as girls and boys might profit differently from parental pressure/support regarding their achievement in STEM and vice versa. This study aims to shed light on this topic and explores potential within- and over time associations between students' perception of parental pressure/support and grades in mathematics and biology. Using self-report data from 1088 8th grade students at T1 (M AGE = 13.70, SD = 0.53, 54% girls) from Brandenburg, Germany, multigroup cross-lagged models were conceptualized with Mplus. The results indicate that there are gender differences in the interplay of students' grades in mathematics, biology and their perception of parental pressure and support: Whereas mother support plays a central beneficial role for girls' achievement in STEM subjects as well as for the other parental variables over time, for boys mother support is negatively associated with math performance over time. Within-time associations further show that boys - in contrast to girls - do not benefit from any parental support regarding their performance in mathematics or biology. Finally, results suggest that the relationship between adolescents' STEM achievement and parental pressure/support is rather mono-directional than bi-directional over time. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2022/2