Personal, Family, and School Factors Related to Adolescent Academic Performance

Post-divorce Parental Conflict, Economic Hardship and Academic Achievement among Adolescents of Divorced Families

“…The current study revealed that post-divorce parental conflict and economic hardship had an impact on adolescents' academic achievement in divorced families. Consistent with previous research (Grych & Fincham, 1990;Kelly, 2000;Amato, 2001;Rodgers & Rose, 2001;Crosnoe & Elder, 2004;Ghazarian & Buehler, 2010), children and adolescents who reported higher level of post-divorce parental conflict were more likely to demonstrate lower academic achievement through less parental warmth, support and monitoring. This study suggests that post-divorce parental conflict is harmful for adolescent and may diminish their potential to excel in academic achievement.…”

The Parental Monitoring of Diabetes Care Scale: Development, Reliability and Validity of a Scale to Evaluate Parental Supervision of Adolescent Illness Management

“…Although single-parent families have shown to have lower levels of parental monitoring in the broader adolescent risk literature [1,2], results of the present study did not suggest that single parents provided less oversight of the diabetes regimen than parents in two-parent families. Because only 30% of the current sample of 100 families were single parents, power to detect such differences may have been low.…”

“…Monitoring of adolescents' behavior and whereabouts has been repeatedly identified as an important predictor of adolescent behavioral outcomes. Poor monitoring by parents has been found to predict early sexual initiation [1], school failure [2], use of alcohol and drugs [3][4][5], and involvement in antisocial activities [6,7]. As a result, interventions to reduce risky behaviors in youth often attempt to increase parental oversight and supervision of adolescent activities [8,9].…”

Fathers’ Importance in Adolescents’ Academic Achievement

“…Limited research has found that adoption is related to increased risk of academic difficulties, external or internal problem behaviors, and other negative outcomes (Haugaard, 1998;Kriebel & Wentzel, 2011;Rodgers & Rose, 2001). Adopted children sometimes enter families with accumulated risk factors, such as poor prenatal care, or abuse prior to adoption.…”

“…Compared to children with biological fathers in the household, children without fathers or those who do not live with their biological fathers were found to be less prepared for school (Fowler & Richards, 1978;Martin et al, 2010), to have lower academic achievement and cognitive ability (Cherlin & Furstenberg, 1994;Hetherington & Stanley-Hagan, 1997;Mulkey, Crain, & Harrington, 1992;Rodgers & Rose, 2001), to experience higher risk of school dropout (McLanahan & Sandefur, 1994;Suh & Suh, 2011), and to exhibit higher levels of behavior problems (King, Mitchell, & Hawkins, 2010). For instance, Menning (2006) found that when nonresident fathers had higher involvement in their children's lives, those children had a lower probability of detrimental school outcomes; the students who were most at risk were those whose fathers had infrequent involvement.…”