How Do Parents’ Psychological Resources (Parenting Self-Efficacy and Enjoyment of Parenting) Enable Them to Support Second Graders’ Self-Regulation and Competence? Focusing on the Mediational Role of Parental Involvement at Home

• In Event: Roundtable Session 11
  In Roundtable Session: The Voice of the Child and the Parent: Family Engagement Practices Up Close and Personal

Abstract

The goal of the current study is to uncover the mechanisms for how and why parental involvement promotes children’s competence in academic and social-emotional dimensions. I will examine how the dynamics between parents’ psychological resources, parental involvement, children’s emotional and cognitive regulation, and children’s social-emotional competence (rated by teachers) and their academic competence (STAR test score—ELA and MATH score-- will be used to constitute academic competence construct) among US mothers.

Authors

• Soojung Kim, University of California - Berkeley

• Susan D. Holloway, University of California - Berkeley

• Sawako Suzuki, Saint Mary's College of California

• Ayumi Nagase, University of California - Berkeley