The effects of parental educational beliefs on school engagement through perceived parental behaviors

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2025-2

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Aydoğdu Sözen, Ezgi

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In this thesis, the associations between maternal educational beliefs, expectations, parenting behaviors, and school engagement of children in grades 3 to 11 were investigated with two studies. In Study 1, maternal beliefs about important factors for children’s school success were qualitatively examined on a nationwide sample. Main themes and subthemes were identified. Differences in such main themes and subthemes across genders and school levels were examined. Also, the associations between family theme and school engagement at Time 1 and Time 2 were investigated. In Study 2, the mediating role of perceived parenting behaviors in the relationship between maternal educational expectations and school engagement was longitudinally investigated for each school level. Moreover, multigroup comparison analyses were conducted to understand whether the mediation model differed across genders at each school level. According to the results of Study 1, mothers believed that school-, family- and child-related factors were important for school success. Also, mothers reported certain main themes and subthemes more frequently regarding their children’s gender and school levels. Family theme had a significant association with only school engagement at Time 1. In Study 2, maternal educational expectations were directly related to school engagement at middle and high school levels. Also, both maternal warmth and inductive reasoning at middle school but only maternal warmth at high school had a mediating role between maternal educational expectations and school engagement. Except for some intercepts, the mediation model was invariant across genders at all school levels.

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School engagement, Parental educational beliefs and expectations, Parenting behaviors, Multigroup comparison

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/113465

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis