The role of mothers' beliefs in students' self-concept of ability development

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate whether the child-related competence beliefs of mothers are associated with the development of Finnish adolescents' self-concept of mathematics and literacy ability during their transition from primary to lower secondary school and whether these associations depend on adolescents' level of performance. The results showed that, first, adolescents' self-concept of mathematics and literacy ability decreased over time. The impact of maternal beliefs on the linear trend of the self-concept of mathematics and literacy ability was dependent on the level of students' performance. Mothers' high beliefs buffered against the decrease in adolescents' self-concept of ability in mathematics, but only among high-performing adolescents. In turn, mothers' high beliefs in adolescents' literacy ability were detrimental to the development of low-performing adolescents' self-concept of ability in literacy, whereas mothers' beliefs had no effect on the change in the self-concept of students with average or high literacy performance.

Las creencias parentales en el proceso de crianza y sus relaciones con el comportamiento adolescente

“…Las percepciones de los padres pueden ser predictivas en función de las tendencias comportamentales previas de los adolescentes. De esta manera, aunque los adolescentes con padres que creen que sus hijos fuman tienen una probabilidad más alta de hacerlo (Mak, 2018), las creencias maternales altas se asocian con el sostenimiento del autoconcepto académico de los hijos solo cuando los adolescentes ya traen alto rendimiento (Pesu et al, 2018). De igual forma, la calibración entre creencias y comportamientos puede estar relacionada con las interacciones previas; así, entre más jóvenes sean los padres y menos reconozcan los problemas de sus hijos, en casos de hijos con más problemas de comportamiento e historiales de tratamiento adolescente y más problemas previos al inicio del tratamiento, puede haber más discrepancia entre la percepción parental y el consumo real de los hijos adolescentes en tratamiento (McGillicuddy & Eliseo-Arras, 2012).…”

The roles of teacher–student relationship quality and self-concept of ability in adolescents’ achievement emotions: temperament as a moderator

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The Quality of Maternal Homework Involvement: The Role of Adolescent and Maternal Factors

“…Mothers' beliefs about adolescents' school success (Grade 6,fall). Mothers' beliefs about adolescents' school success were measured with two items (questions modified from previous studies; see Aunola et al, 2002;Eccles Parsons, Adler, & Kaczala, 1982;Frome & Eccles, 1998;Pesu, Aunola, Viljaranta, Hirvonen, & Kiuru, 2018) using a five-point scale (1 = poorly, 5 = very well; "How well is your child doing at the moment in school? "; "How well do you think your child will do later on in lower secondary school?…”