Parental interest in children's education, children's self-esteem and locus of control, and later educational attainment: Twenty-six year follow-up of the 1970 British Birth Cohort
Parental interest in children's education, children's self-esteem and locus of control, and later educational attainment: Twenty-six year follow-up of the 1970 British Birth Cohort
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10.1348/000709905x52508
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发表时间：
2006-03-01
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3.7
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Flouri, E
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作者：
Flouri, E
背景很少有研究探讨母亲和父亲对子女教育的兴趣是否通过影响子女的自尊和心理控制源而与子女的教育成就相联系。(1)探讨（在控制了已知的混杂因素后）父母对10岁儿童教育的兴趣和儿童10岁时的控制点和自尊对26岁时教育程度的长期影响;以及（2）探讨母亲和父亲对子女教育的兴趣是否通过其对提高子女教育水平的作用而与子女的教育成就相联系。自尊和内部控制点。该研究使用了1970年英国队列研究（BCS 70）的纵向数据。最初的样本是1，737名男性和2，033名女性，他们在10岁时的自尊，控制点，父亲的兴趣，母亲的兴趣和26岁时的教育程度方面有有效数据。其中，1，326名男性和1，578名女性被纳入最终分析。控制的出生至10岁的因素包括出生体重、父母社会阶层、社会经济劣势、情绪/行为问题、认知能力和母亲的教育程度。在多变量水平上，内部控制点和母亲的兴趣（但不是自尊）显着相关的男性和女性的教育程度。父亲的兴趣是一个重要的预测教育程度只有在妇女。父母的兴趣并没有通过其对儿童的自尊或控制点的影响与受教育程度。自尊通过增加内控点预测了男女儿童的教育成就，父亲的兴趣通过增加母亲的参与预测了男性儿童的教育成就。虽然母亲和父亲对子女教育的兴趣并没有通过对子女自尊或控制点的影响与教育程度联系在一起，但他们是教育程度的重要预测因素，特别是在女儿中。
Background. Few studies have investigated if mother's interest and father's interest in child's education are linked to educational attainment via their impact on child's self-esteem and locus of control.Aims. (1) To investigate (after controlling for known confounding factors) the long-term effect of mother's and father's interest in child's education at age 10 and child's locus of control and self-esteem at age 10 in educational attainment at age 26; and (2) to explore if mother's interest and father's interest in child's education are linked to child's educational attainment via their effect in increasing child's self-esteem and internal locus of control.Sample. The study used longitudinal data from sweeps of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). The initial sample was those 1,737 men and 2,033 women with valid data on age 10 self-esteem, locus of control, father's interest, mother's interest, and age 26 educational attainment. Of these, 1,326 men and 1,578 women were included in the final analysis.Method. The birth to age 10 factors that were controlled for were birth weight, parental social class, socio-economic disadvantage, emotional/behavioural problems, cognitive ability, and mother's educational attainment.Results. At the multivariate level, internal locus of control and mother's interest (but not self-esteem) were significantly related to educational attainment in both men and women. Father's interest was a significant predictor of educational attainment only in women. Parent's interest was not linked to educational attainment via its impact on child's self-esteem or locus of control. Self-esteem predicted educational attainment in both genders by increasing internal locus of control, and fathers' interest predicted educational attainment in men by increasing mother's involvement.Conclusion. Although mothers' and fathers' interest in their children's education were not linked to educational attainment via their impact on children's self-esteem or locus of control, they were significant predictors of educational attainment especially in daughters.