Journal
JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES
Volume 38, Issue 9, Pages 1239-1261Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X16637101
Keywords
academic engagement; parenting style; relationship quality; gender differences; education
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [RO1 AA016016]
- National Institute on Drug Abuse [T32 DA017629, P50 DA10075, P50 DA039838]
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Although parenting is clearly linked to academic engagement in adolescence, less is known about links between parenting and academic engagement in emerging adulthood. A diverse sample of college students (N = 633; 53.1% female, 45.7% White/European American, 28.3% Asian American/Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, 26.4% Hispanic/Latino American, 21.6% Black/African American, and 2.8% Native American/American Indian) answered surveys about mothers' and fathers' parenting style, parent-offspring relationship quality, academic attitudes, academic behaviors, and academic performance. Emerging adults with more permissive mothers viewed grades as less important than emerging adults with less permissive mothers. Mothers' authoritarian parenting, mothers' permissive parenting, and relationship quality with father were differentially related to academic engagement depending on emerging adults' gender. Both mothers' and fathers' parenting characteristics may affect the academic engagement of emerging adults via past parenting behaviors and current quality of the parent-offspring relationship, despite decreased physical proximity of emerging adults and their parents.
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