Parental Involvement and Family Motivational Climate as Perceived by Children: A Cross-cultural Study
The culture of a country may influence parental involvement in a student’s learning, making it more or less adequate. To test this possibility, this study analyzes the cross-cultural validity of the learning-oriented Family Motivational Climate model (FMC) as an index of parental involvement in stud...
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2020-05-01
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| author | Mirtha del Prado-Morales Cecilia Simón-Rueda Aldo Aguirre-Camacho Jesús Alonso-Tapia |
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| description | The culture of a country may influence parental involvement in a student’s learning, making it more or less adequate. To test this possibility, this study analyzes the cross-cultural validity of the learning-oriented Family Motivational Climate model (FMC) as an index of parental involvement in students’ academic job and the FMC questionnaire (FMC-Q), as a way of operationalizing it. A total of 583 Spanish and 448 Cuban students filled in the FMC-Q and the questionnaire of perceived motivational changes resulting from parental practices. Confirmatory, cross-validation, and multi-group factor analyses revealed that the model showed a good fit to the data, both in the Spanish and in the Cuban samples. Besides, FMC predicted the 74% of the variance of students’ motivational change. However, the results also revealed differences between the two samples in the FMC model set up, as Spanish and Cuban students did not put down the same significance to several indicators of the model. These facts imply the need to take cultural differences into account when designing interventions aimed at changing parental involvement practices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bcd3afe7fb054b68a157a70089f449812022-12-22T01:38:56ZengColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de MadridPsicología Educativa: Revista de los Psicólogos de la Educación1135-755X2174-05262020-05-0126212112810.5093/psed2020a811320559Parental Involvement and Family Motivational Climate as Perceived by Children: A Cross-cultural StudyMirtha del Prado-Morales0Cecilia Simón-Rueda1Aldo Aguirre-Camacho2Jesús Alonso-Tapia3Universidad Isabel I de Castilla, Burgos , Spain, Universidad Isabel I de Castilla, Burgos, SpainUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid , Spain, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SpainUniversidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid , Spain, Universidad Europea de Madrid, SpainUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid , Spain, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SpainThe culture of a country may influence parental involvement in a student’s learning, making it more or less adequate. To test this possibility, this study analyzes the cross-cultural validity of the learning-oriented Family Motivational Climate model (FMC) as an index of parental involvement in students’ academic job and the FMC questionnaire (FMC-Q), as a way of operationalizing it. A total of 583 Spanish and 448 Cuban students filled in the FMC-Q and the questionnaire of perceived motivational changes resulting from parental practices. Confirmatory, cross-validation, and multi-group factor analyses revealed that the model showed a good fit to the data, both in the Spanish and in the Cuban samples. Besides, FMC predicted the 74% of the variance of students’ motivational change. However, the results also revealed differences between the two samples in the FMC model set up, as Spanish and Cuban students did not put down the same significance to several indicators of the model. These facts imply the need to take cultural differences into account when designing interventions aimed at changing parental involvement practices. https://journals.copmadrid.org/psed/art/psed2020a8 parental involvementfamily motivational climatelearning motivationsuccess expectancieschildren’s satisfaction |
| spellingShingle | Mirtha del Prado-Morales Cecilia Simón-Rueda Aldo Aguirre-Camacho Jesús Alonso-Tapia Parental Involvement and Family Motivational Climate as Perceived by Children: A Cross-cultural Study Psicología Educativa: Revista de los Psicólogos de la Educación parental involvement family motivational climate learning motivation success expectancies children’s satisfaction |
| title | Parental Involvement and Family Motivational Climate as Perceived by Children: A Cross-cultural Study |
| title_full | Parental Involvement and Family Motivational Climate as Perceived by Children: A Cross-cultural Study |
| title_fullStr | Parental Involvement and Family Motivational Climate as Perceived by Children: A Cross-cultural Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parental Involvement and Family Motivational Climate as Perceived by Children: A Cross-cultural Study |
| title_short | Parental Involvement and Family Motivational Climate as Perceived by Children: A Cross-cultural Study |
| title_sort | parental involvement and family motivational climate as perceived by children a cross cultural study |
| topic | parental involvement family motivational climate learning motivation success expectancies children’s satisfaction |
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