The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of parents' support on middle school students' academic motivation and academic achievement and to examine the relationships between them as well.
The final analysis object was 330 middle school ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of parents' support on middle school students' academic motivation and academic achievement and to examine the relationships between them as well.
The final analysis object was 330 middle school students (176 students in urban area, Jeonju and 154 students in rural area, Jinan). A survey instrument was made by revising two questionnaires developed by Park Yeong-sin and Kim Eui-cheol (1999) and by Park Hyeon-ju (2000) in the pilot study to examine parents' support. And Bak Byung-gee's questionnaire (2005) was used to examine students' academic motivation.
The findings of this study are as follows:
First, parents' economic, informational, emotional and school activities support have high positive correlations with students' academic motivation. Especially, parents' support for school activities is the most influential in middle school students' academic motivation.
Second, parents' support has high positive correlation with students' academic achievement. And it was also found that the score on the test of each subject such as Korean, English, math, social science, and science was influenced by different sub-variables of parents' support.
Third, when the students have high level of self-efficacy, self-determination and goal-orientation for their academic achievement, their academic achievement was high.
Finally, comparing the relationships between parents' support and students' academic motivation and achievement in urban area with those in rural area, the most important parents' support variable is school activities support in both areas. And among academic motivation variables, goal-orientation is the best predictor of academic achievement for urban area students, but self-efficacy is the most significant variable for academic achievement of the students in rural area, which is followed by goal-orientation.