caa a22 4500 477121985 CHVBK 20180405111639.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02339890 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02339890 Georgiou Stelios Department of Education, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 537, CY 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus aut Parental involvement: Definition and outcomes [Elektronische Daten] [Stelios Georgiou] The purpose of this study was to seek a definition of the concept of parental involvement and to examine the relationship that may exist between school achievement and specific parental involvement activities. Data were collected from 852 parents of sixth-grade students of both genders. It was found that the involvement of parents in their children's educational process is a complex behavior that may take different forms, not all of which are related to the child's school achievement. The following six types of parental involvement were identified through factor analysis: learning at home, volunteering and decision making at school, and four different parenting tendencies (emphasizing achievement, pressure, control, and personality development). Parenting through emphasis on achievement and through personality development had a positive, statistically significant correlation with actual school achievement, while parenting through pressure had a negative such correlation. A positive correlation was also found between parental volunteering at school and the child's actual school achievement. Learning at home and parenting through control had no significant correlation with achievement. The findings of this study suggest that the six distinct types of behavior that make up parental involvement have differential effects in relation to school achievement. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997 Social Psychology of Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 1/3(1996-09-01), 189-209 1381-2890 1:3<189 1996 1 11218 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02339890 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02339890 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Georgiou Stelios Department of Education, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 537, CY 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Psychology of Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 1/3(1996-09-01), 189-209 1381-2890 1:3<189 1996 1 11218 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer