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标题：Educational Goals, Parenting Practices and Adolescents’ Academic Achievement
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作者：Rozumah Baharudin ; Hong Chi Yee ; Lim Sin Jing 等
期刊名称：Asian Social Science
印刷版ISSN：1911-2017
电子版ISSN：1911-2025
出版年度：2010
卷号：6
期号：12
页码：144
DOI：10.5539/ass.v6n12p144
语种：English
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：Normal 0 false false false EN-MY X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 false false false EN-MY X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} The present study examined linkages between educational goals, parenting practices (school involvement and monitoring) of single-mothers and single-fathers, and the academic achievement of their school-going adolescents. Additionally, it sought to examine the differences in educational goals and parenting practices between the single fathers and mothers, as well the parents’ differential treatments toward their male and female adolescents. Through Single Mother Associations, we recruited 60 single mothers and snowball 30 single fathers for the study. We found that the parents differ only in terms of educational goals in which single fathers had significantly lower goals compared to single mothers. In zero order analyses, we discovered positive correlations between (1) parenting practices and academic achievement of adolescents from both families; (2) fathers’ educational goals and their monitoring behaviors; and (3) mothers’ educational goals and their school involvement, and monitoring behaviors. Findings from this study suggest an active educational socialization process in diverse family settings to promote adolescents’ educational success.