Impacts of family environment on adolescents’ academic achievement: The role of peer interaction quality and educational expectation gap

ABSTRACT: The current study uses a two-wave longitudinal survey to explores the influence mechanism of the family environment on adolescents’ academic achievement. The family environment is measured by parents and children’s reports, including family atmosphere, parent–child interaction, and family rules, to reveal the mediating effect of adolescents’ positive or negative peers between the family environment and academic achievement, and whether the gap between self- and parental educational expectation plays a moderating effect. This study uses the data of the China Education Panel Study (CEPS); the survey samples include 9,449 eighth-grade students (Mage = 13.55 years, SD = 0.70), establishing a multilevel moderated mediating effect model. The results showed (1) the family environment and peer int

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC9510845 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature