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Effects of Parent’s Gender, Child’s Gender, and Parental Involvement on the Academic Achievement of Adolescents in Single Parent Families.
- Source :
- Sex Roles; Feb2007, Vol. 56 Issue 3-4, p149-157, 9p, 1 Chart, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- We used a national database (Educational Longitudinal Study) to investigate the effects of parent’s gender, child’s gender, and parental involvement in school on the academic achievement of adolescents in single-parent families. A three way 2 × 2 × 2 (parent’s gender × child’s gender × parental involvement) MANCOVA was conducted with four student academic achievement indicators as dependent variables and SES as a covariate. The results indicated that parent gender and child gender interact with parent involvement to affect adolescents’ academic achievement differentially. Specifically, daughters who lived with highly involved single-fathers performed better academically than the other groups did. These findings suggest that researchers who study single-parents’ involvement in their adolescents’ academic achievement need to pay more attention to gender-specific effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03600025
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 3-4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sex Roles
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 24091377
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-006-9157-1