Parental Involvement of Mothers with Chronic Illness and Children's Academic Achievement

Autor/inn/en	Chen, Yung-Chi; Fish, Marian C.
Titel	Parental Involvement of Mothers with Chronic Illness and Children's Academic Achievement
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 34 (2013) 5, S.583-606 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X12444081
Schlagwörter	Parent Participation; Mothers; Chronic Illness; Academic Achievement; Parent School Relationship; Diseases; Middle School Students; High School Students; Questionnaires; Family Environment; At Risk Students; Grades (Scholastic); Severity (of Disability); Self Efficacy; Parent Attitudes; Hypothesis Testing; Academic Aspiration; California; Florida; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elternmitwirkung; Mother; Mutter; Chronic disease; Chronische Krankheit; Schulleistung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Disease; Krankheit; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Fragebogen; Familienmilieu; Notenspiegel; Schweregrad; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Elternverhalten; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Kalifornien
Abstract	This study examined how maternal chronic illnesses may affect children's academic achievement through parental involvement. A total of 189 mothers diagnosed with chronic illnesses, such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS, chronic pain, asthma, myelodysplasic syndrome, and fibromyalgia, and with a child in middle school or high school (age 10-18 years) completed questionnaires assessing the demands of illness on family functioning, parental involvement, and the child's academic functioning. The results suggested that the majority of children of mothers with chronic illness were able to function adequately in terms of academic achievement. However, children's academic functioning might be at risk when family functioning was more disrupted as the result of maternal illness. Children's grades were negatively related to levels of demands of illness on family functioning. Levels of illness demands were negatively related to parental self-efficacy. Moreover, parental self-efficacy attenuated the effects of disruption in normal family functioning on children's academic achievement. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10