Process and context: Longitudinal effects of the interactions between parental involvement, parental warmth, and SES on academic achievement

Publication Title

Journal of School Psychology

ISSN

00224405

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Parents' involvement in their children's education and parental warmth have been linked to many positive child outcomes. In addition to these positive associations, contemporary developmental theory stresses the interaction between different parenting variables and the interaction between parenting and broad contextual factors such as family socioeconomic status (SES). Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine main and interaction effects of parent home-based involvement and parental warmth on achievement outcomes. Additionally, we evaluated whether these variables also interacted with SES to predict students' achievement growth. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort of 2010–11 (N = 2352), growth of academic outcomes was modeled from kindergarten to the fourth grade. We then used latent variable interaction (Maslowsky, Jager, & Hemken, 2015) procedures to examine interaction effects of our primary study variables. Few significant effects were noted for children's reading and mathematics scores, but more substantial main (home-based involvement) and interaction (parental warmth and SES) effects emerged for science achievement. At high SES levels, warmth negatively predicted growth in science, whereas at lower SES levels, warmth positively predicted growth. Findings are discussed in relation to importance of parent involvement, differential effects across SES contexts, and curricular emphasis in contemporary schools.

First Page

96

Last Page

114

Publication Date

2-1-2020

DOI

10.1016/j.jsp.2019.11.004

PubMed ID

32178814

Keywords

Home-based involvement, Latent interaction modeling, Longitudinal growth curve modeling, Parent involvement, Parental warmth, Socioeconomic status

Department

Department of Psychology

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