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The Relationship Between Parental Involvement During High School and Collegiate Academic Mastery
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by Stephanie Brueck, Lauren Mazza, and Alyssa Tousignant - Washington & Jeffersonn College
This study examined the relationship between perceived parental
involvement during high school and academic mastery in college. A sample
of 77 first- and second-year students from a small, northeastern liberal arts
college completed the Parental Involvement Project (PIP) Student
Questionnaire (Hoover-Dempsey, Sandler, & Walker, 2002). We hypothesized
that higher reported levels of past parental involvement during high school
would be related to greater reported current levels of collegiate academic
mastery. Correlational analyses confirmed the hypothesized significant
positive correlation between parental involvement during high school and
collegiate academic mastery (r = .43, p < .001). These findings suggest a
possible benefit of parental participation in the academic development of
adolescents for later success in college.
Fall 2012 | Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research (Vol. 14, No. 1, p. 35), published by Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology (Chattanooga, TN). Copyright, 2012, Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology. All rights reserved.