A weekly-diary study of students' schoolwork motivation and parental support.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parental support plays an important role in children's schoolwork motivation and may have been even more important during the first UK COVID-19 pandemic lockdown because all schoolwork was completed at home. When examining the effect of parental support on children's schoolwork motivation, research has typically focused on comparing families with each other (i.e., difference between families). In reality, however, the effect unfolds as a transactional, bidirectional process between parents and children over time (i.e., a within family process). This research trend can result in imprecise conclusions about the association between parental support and schoolwork motivation.

Objectives

We examined bidirectional effects of parental schoolwork support and children's sc

SUBMITTER: Wu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9796738 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature