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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Häfner, Isabelle
• Flunger, Barbara
• Dicke, Anna-Lena
• Gaspard, Hanna
• Brisson, Brigitte M.
• Nagengast, Benjamin
• Trautwein, Ulrich

Titel

The Role of Family Characteristics for Students' Academic Outcomes: A Person-Centered Approach

Ist Teil von

• Child development, 2018-07, Vol.89 (4), p.1405-1422

Ort / Verlag

United States: Wiley for the Society for Research in Child Development

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Using data from 1,571 ninth-grade students (Mage = 14.62) from 82 academic track schools in Germany and their predominantly Caucasian middle-class parents, configurations of different family characteristics reported by parents were investigated. Latent profile analyses considering academic involvement, family interest, parents' self-concept, child's need for support, and parents' time and energy identified average, indifferent, motivated and engaged, motivated and disengaged, and involved families. Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with students' motivational (self-concept, effort, and interest) and achievement outcomes (achievement test and grades) in math were analyzed. Students from families classified as motivated and disengaged showed higher initial levels motivation and achievement. Over 5 months, these students also showed an increase in self-concept and higher achievement than students from other family types.