An Investigation Of The Influence Of Teacher-student Relationship And Parental Rearing Style On Junior Students’ Attitudes Towards Homework

Teachers are guiders of students at school. A good relationship between students and teachers can stimulate students’ interests in learning and play an important role in their growth. Parents are the first teachers of children in the family education. The way that parents rear and educate their children will affect the development of their lifetime. Homework is the eternal theme of the school and the family education. It plays a significant role in improving students’ academic achievement and maintaining of the parent-child relationship.Based on the related study at home and abroad, the researcher draws up the questionnaire of the teacher-student relationship of junior school students and their attitude towards homework. Both of them are in line with the psychological measure. This study, selecting 13-15 years old junior school students as the research subjects, adopts the survey method to explore the relationship between teachers and students as well as between the parental rearing styles and junior school students’ attitude towards homework attitude.Through Independent Sample T-test and Analysis of Variance on 13-15 years old junior school students’ attitude towards homework, the general characteristics of the teacher-student relationship and parenting rearing styles as well as the differences in terms of gender and grader. Through Correlation Analysis and Regression Analysis to study the relationship between teachers and students, parenting rearing style and junior school students’attitude towards homework, conclusions are as follows.1. Junior students hold good attitudes towards their homework. The factor influencing their attitudes towards homework, cognition and behavior ranks behind emotion. There is no significant difference in junior students’attitudes towards homework between boys and girls. There is a significant difference between different grades in emotion and behavior but there is no significant difference in cognition. 2. The teacher-student relationship is good. For each factor influencing the teacher-student relationship, ethical relations and interpersonal relations follow teaching relations. There is no significant difference between in the three dimensions between boys and girls. The relationship between teachers and girls is better than it between teachers and boys. There is no significant difference in the interpersonal relationship in grades. There is a significant difference in the ethical relationship in grades.3. For factors of the parental rearing style of junior students, neglecting, democratic and spoiling rearing styles ranks after the authoritarian one. Obviously, the authoritarian and neglecting parental style dominate. There is no significant difference in the parental rearing style between boys and girls. There is a significant difference in the parental rearing style in grades.4. The teacher-student relationship and junior students’attitudes towards homework are significantly correlated. So are parental rearing styles and junior students’attitude towards homework.5. Through Regression Analysis, it finds that the various dimensions of the teacher-student relationship have impacts on junior students’attitudes towards homework and the authoritarian and democratic rearing styles can predict the effects of their attitudes towards homework.