Parental Aspirations for Their Children's Educational Attainment: Relations to Ethnicity, Parental Education, Children's Academic Performance, and Parental Perceptions of School Climate

Autor/inn/en	Spera, Christopher; Wentzel, Kathryn R.; Matto, Holly C.
Titel	Parental Aspirations for Their Children's Educational Attainment: Relations to Ethnicity, Parental Education, Children's Academic Performance, and Parental Perceptions of School Climate
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38 (2009) 8, S.1140-1152 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-008-9314-7
Schlagwörter	Ethnicity; Educational Attainment; Academic Aspiration; Whites; Parent Aspiration; Parent Background; Academic Achievement; Parent Attitudes; Educational Quality; Prediction; Educational Environment; Middle School Students; High School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnizität; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; White; Weißer; Elternwille; Elternhaus; Schulleistung; Elternverhalten; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Vorhersage; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin
Abstract	This study examined parental aspirations for their children's educational attainment in relation to ethnicity (African American, Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic), parental education, children's academic performance, and parental perceptions of the quality and climate of their children's school with a sample of 13,577 middle and high school parents. All parents had relatively high educational aspirations for their children, and within each ethnic subgroup, parental education and children's academic performance were significantly and positively related to parental aspirations. However, moderating effects were found such that Caucasian parents with lower levels of education had significantly lower educational aspirations for their children than did parents of other ethnicities with similar low levels of education. Although the strength of the relationship between parental perceptions of school-related factors and parental aspirations for their children's educational attainment was not strong, it was most predictive of non-Caucasian parental aspirations for their children. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10