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Field name	Details
Nuova numerazione	78566
Collocazione	UPS BIBL CENTR 39-B-921
Autore	WU, N.
Titolo	Intergenerational transmission of educational aspirations in Chinese families : identifying mediators and moderators. Parte componente di periodico
Descrizione fisica	pp. 1238-1251
Nota generale	Estratto da: Journal of youth and adolescence, 2018, 47, 6.
Riassunto	Parents’ educational aspirations for youth play an important role in shaping youth’s own educational aspirations; however, little is known about how and in what context parents may transmit their aspirations to youth effectively. This is of particular interest and import to be examined in Chinese families, given Chinese cultural emphasis on educational achievement and Chinese youth’s outstanding academic performance internationally. By integrating several key theories of motivation and parental socialization (i.e., the expectancy-value model of academic achievement, the two-step model of value transmission, the contextual model of parenting, and the self-determination theory), the current study investigated simultaneously the mediating roles of parental involvement in youth’s learning and youth’s perceptions of parental aspirations, as well as the moderating role of parental warmth in the intergenerational transmission process of educational aspirations in Chinese families. A two-wave longitudinal study spanning about half a year was conducted among 323 Chinese seventh graders (54% female; <italic>M</italic>age = 13.25 years) and one of their parents (median educational attainment = completion of high school, median monthly income = USD 766-1226). It was found that parental educational aspirations for youth were related positively both indirectly through parental involvement and directly to youth’s perceptions of parental aspirations, which in turn were associated positively with youth’s own educational aspirations about half a year later. It was also found that parental educational aspirations for youth and youth’s own educational aspirations were associated positively with each other only when youth reported experiencing high levels of parental warmth, but unrelated when youth reported experiencing low levels of parental warmth, whereas such moderating effects of parental warmth were absent on the links from parental aspirations to youth’s perceptions of parental aspirations and parental involvement. These findings highlight the importance of integrating multiple theories to understand parent-to-youth transmission of educational aspirations in non-western cultures, which helps not only reveal generalizability, as well as boundary conditions for Western-originated theories, but also inform practical endeavors at promoting youth’s educational achievement worldwide to draw on strengths of different cultures.
Tipo di documento	RICERCA.
Soggetto	ASPIRAZIONI.
	STUDENTI.
	GENITORI-FIGLI.
	RELAZIONI FAMILIARI.
	SALUTE.
	APPRENDIMENTO.
	GENERAZIONI.
	CINA.
Ambito	Psicologico
Ambito	Pedagogico
Autore Secondario	HOU, Y.
	WANG, Q.
	YU, C.
Titolo correlato	Journal of youth and adolescence, 2018 , 47, 6.
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Intergenerational transmission of educational aspirations in Chinese families : identifying mediators and moderators.