Graduate Program

School Psychology

Degree Name

Specialist in School Psychology

Semester of Degree Completion

2001

Thesis Director

J. Michael Havey

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore how the characteristics of parenting change during the adolescents' ninth through twelfth grade years and how these changes effect achievement. In addition, this study explored adolescents' and parents' perceptions of parenting. Subjects were 120 ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders recruited from public high schools in the Midwest. Measures of maternal and paternal demandingness, responsiveness, values toward achievement, involvement in schoolwork, and involvement in-school functions, designed for this program of research, were obtained from both adolescents and their parents. Results showed adolescents' reports of maternal parenting significantly predicted their achievement outcomes. Adolescents also reported mothers and fathers level of demandingness to be significantly related to achievement outcome. Similarly, parent's reports of demandingness also predicted adolescent achievement above and beyond other parenting characteristics. Adolescents and parents reported decreased levels of demandingness from the ninth to the twelfth grade. Adolescent's reported an increase in parental involvement from the ninth to the twelfth grades. Both parents and adolescents reported values toward achievement remained the same between the ninth and the twelfth grades.

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