Parental interest in children's education, children's self-esteem and locus of control, and later educational attainment: Twenty-six year follow-up of the 1970 British Birth Cohort

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-55

  Flouri, Eirini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROL; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PARENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33645291798     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000709905X52508     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Biller, H. B., & Lopez Kimpton, J. (1997). The father and the school-aged child. In M. E. Lamb (Ed.), The role of the father in child development (pp. 143-161). New York: Wiley.
2. Blascovich, J., & Tomaka, J. (1991). Measures of self-esteem. In J. P. Robinson, P R. Shaver & L. S. Wrightman (Eds.), Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes (pp. 115-160). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
3. Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
4. Butler, N., Despotidou, S., & Shepherd, P. (1980). 1970 British Cohort Study: Ten-year follow-up. London: Social Statistics Research Unit, City University.
5. Bynner, J., &Joshi, H. (2002). Equality and opportunity in education: Evidence from the 1958 and 1970 birth cohort studies. Oxford Review of Education, 28, 405-425.
6. Cabrera, N., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Bradley, R. H., Hofferth, S., & Lamb, M. E. (2000). Fatherhood in the twenty-first century. Child Development, 71, 127-136.
7. Ceci, S. J., & Williams, W. M. (1997). Schooling, intelligence, and income. American Psychologist, 52, 1051-1058.
8. Chorpita, B. F., & Barlow, D. H. (1998). The development of anxiety: The role of control in the early environment. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 3-21.
9. Coiro, M. J., & Emery, R. E. (1998). Do marriage problems affect fathering more than mothering? A quantitative and qualitative review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 1, 23-40.
10. Coleman, J. S. (1988). Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology, 54(Suppl), S95-S120.
11. Corcoran, M. (1995). Rags to rags: Poverty and mobility in the United States. Annual Review of Sociology, 21, 237-267.
12. Crockett, L. J., Eggebeen, D. J., & Hawkins, A. J. (1993). Father's presence and young children's behavioral and cognitive adjustment. Family Relations, 14, 355-377.
13. Deutsch, F. M., Servis, L. J., & Payne, J. D. (2001). Paternal participation in child care and its effects on children's self-esteem and attitudes toward gendered roles. Journal of Family Issues, 22, 1000-1024.
14. Fagan, J., & Iglesias, A. (1999). Father involvement program effects on fathers, father figures, and their Head Start children: A quasi-experimental study. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 14, 243-269.
15. Fan, X., & Chen, M. (2001). Parental involvement and students' academic achievement: A meta-analysis. Educational Psychology Review, 13, 1-22.
16. Feinstein, L., & Symons, J. (1999). Attainment in secondary school. Oxford Economic Papers, 51, 300-321.
17. Flouri, E., & Buchanan, A. (2004). Early father's and mother's involvement and child's later educational outcomes. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 74, 141-153.
18. Goodenough, F. (1926). Measurement of intelligence by drawings. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World.
19. Hair, J. E., Jr., Anderson, R. E., Tatham, R. L., & Black, W. C. (1995). Multivariate data analysis with readings. NJ: Prentice-Hall.
20. Harris, D. B. (1963). Children's drawings as measure of intellectual maturity. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World.
21. Hattie, J. (1992). Self-concept. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
22. Haveman, R., & Wolfe, B. (1995). The determinants of children's attainments: A review of methods and findings. Journal of Economic Literature, 33, 1829-1878.
23. Hill, N. E., & Taylor, L. C. (2004). Parental school involvement and children's academic achievement: Pragmatics and issues. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 161-164.
24. Horrell, S., Humphries, J., & Voth, H.-J. (2001). Destined for deprivation: Human capital formation and intergenerational poverty in nineteenth-century England. Explorations in Economic History, 38, 339-365.
25. Jodl, K. M., Michael, A., Malanchuk, O., Eccles, J. S., & Sameroff, A. (2001). Parents' roles in shaping early adolescents' occupational aspirations. Child Development, 72, 1247-1265.
26. Keith, T. Z., Keith, P. B., Quirk, K. J., Sperduto, J., Santillo, S., & Killings, S. (1998). Longitudinal effects of parent involvement on high school grades: Similarities and differences across gender and ethnic groups. Journal of School Psychology, 36, 335-363.
27. Kelly, J. (2000). Children's adjustment in conflicted marriage and divorce: A decade review of Kseaich. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39, 963-997.
28. Ketsetzis, M., Ryan, B. A., & Adams, G. R. (1998). Family-processes, parent-child interactions, child characteristics influencing school-based adjustment. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60, 374-387.
29. Kilbourne, B. S., Farkas, G., Beron, K., Weird, D., & England, P. (1994). Returns to skill, compensating differentials, and gender bias: Effects of occupational characteristics on the wages of white women and men. American Journal of Sociology, 100, 689-719.
30. Lefcourt, H. M. (1991). Locus of control. In J. P. Robinson, P. R. Shaver & L. S. Wrightman (Eds.), Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes (pp. 413-499). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
31. Mau, W., Domnick, M., & Ellsworth, R. A. (1995). Characteristics of female students who aspire to science and engineering or homemaking occupations. Career Development Quarterly, 43, 323-333.
32. McClun, L. A., & Merrell, K. W. (1998). Relationship of perceived parenting styles, locus of control orientation, and self-concept among junior high age students. Psychology in the Schools, 35, 381-390.
33. McCulloch, A., & Joshi, H. (2000). Child development and family resources: Evidence from the second generation of the 1958 British birth cohort. Journal of Population Economics, 15, 283-304.
34. McLanahan, S. S., & Sandefur, G. D. (1994). Uncertain childhood, uncertain future. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
35. Midgett, J., Ryan, B. A., Adams, G. R., & Corville-Smith, J. (2002). Complicating achievement and self-esteem: Considering the joint effects of child characteristics and parent-child relationships. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 27, 132-143.
36. Miedel, W. T., & Reynolds, A. J. (1999). Parent involvement in early intervention for disadvantaged children: Does it mattet? Journal of School Psychology, 37, 379-402.
37. Morrison, E. F., Rimm-Kauffman, S., & Pianta, R. C. (2003). A longitudinal study of mother-child interactions at school entry and social and academic outcomes in middle school. Journal of School Psychology, 41, 185-200.
38. Ramey, C. T., Campbell, F. A., & Ramey, S. L. (1999). Early intervention: Successful pathways to improving intellectual development. Developmental Neuropsychology, 16, 385-392.
39. Riley, A. W., Ensminger, M. E., Green, B., & Kang, M. (1998). Social role functioning by adolescents with psychiatric disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37, 620-628.
40. Ross, C. E., & Broh, B. A. (2000). The role of self-esteem and the sense of personal control in the academic achievement process. Sociology of Education, 73, 270-284.
41. Ruiz, S. Y., Roosa, M. W., & Gonzales, N. A. (2002). Predictors of self-esteem for Mexican Anmerican and European American youths: A reexamination of the influence of parenting. Journal of Family Psychology, 16, 70-80.
42. Rutter, M. J., Tizard, J., & Whitmore, K. (1970). Education, health and behaviour. London: Longman.
43. Sandefur, G. D., & Wells, T. (1999). Does family structure really influence educational attainment? Social Science Research, 28, 331-357.
44. Schoon, I., Bynner, J., Joshi, H., Parsons, S., Wiggins, R. D., & Sacker, A. (2002). The influence of context, timing, and duration of risk experiences for the passage from childhood to midadulthood. Child Development, 73, 1486-1504.
45. Scott, L. H. (1981). Measuring intelligence with the Goodenough-Harris drawing test. Psychological Bulletin, 89, 483-505.
46. Shepherd, P (1997). Survey and response. In J. Bynner, E. Feri & P. Shepherd (Eds.), Getting on, getting by, getting nowhere: Twenty-something in the 1990's (pp. 129-136). Aldershot, England: Ashgate.
47. Skaalvik, E. M., & Hagtvet, K. A. (1990). Academic achievement and self-concept: An analysis of causal predominance in a developmental perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 292-307.
48. Strauss, R. S. (2000). Adult functional outcome of those born small for gestational age: Twenty-six year follow-up of the 1970 British birth cohort. Journal of the American Medical Association, 283, 625-632.
49. Tenenbaum, H. R., & Leaper, C. (2002). Are parents' gender schemas related to their children's gender-related cognitions? A meta-analysis. Developmental Psychology, 38, 615-630.
50. Thompson, A., Hollis, C., & Richards, D. (2003). Authoritarian parenting attitudes as a risk for conduct problems: Results from a British national cohort study. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 12, 84-91.
51. Wang, L. Y., Kick, E., Fraser, J., & Burns, T. J. (1999). Status attainment in America: The roles of locus of control and self-esteem in educational and occupational outcomes. Sociological Spectrum, 19, 281-298.
52. Williams, E., & Radin, N. (1999). Effect of father participation in child rearing: Twenty-year followup. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 69, 328-336.
53. Yongman, M. W., Kindlon, D., & Earls, F. (1995). Father involvement and cognitive/behavioral outcomes of pre-term infants. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 34, 58-66.