Parents To Participate In The Pupils' Learning Self-efficacy, Learning Motivation Relations

Parental involvement has been shown to be an important variable in children's education, which advantages to the pupil, parents and schools. On the basis of former researches, interview and opened-end questionnaire survey, the questionnaire of parental involvement was explored. Then we employed parental involvement questionnaire and investigated the relationship among parental.involvement, the pupil's academic self-efficacy and academic motivation.The conclusions are as following:(1)Parental involvement questionnaire has good reliability and validity. It consists of mother involvement and father involvement. Factor analysis of a set of parental involvement measures supported the hypothesized 4 dimensions of parental involvement: behavior involvement, emotional involvement, intellectual involvement and supervision involvement.(2) There are differences between mother involvement and father involvement. The level of mother involvement is higher than father involvement. Besides, parental involvement exist differences in grades and achievements.(3) There is a significant correlation between parental involvement and academic self-efficacy. Regression analysis shows that mother and father's intellectual involvement, father and mother's emotional involvement and father's behavior involvement can predict the academic self-efficacy well.(4) There is a significant correlation between parental involvement and four aspects of academic motivation. Regression analysis shows that mother's emotional involvement, father's supervision involvement and mother's intellectual involvement can predict the achievement motivation well. Mother and father's intellectual involvement and mother's emotional involvement can predict test anxiety well.