Parent-Teacher Communication on High School Students' Development: The Mediation of Teacher-Student Relationship

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Abstract

This study examines the influencing mechanism of parent-teacher communication on high school students’ development by investigating 4606 high school teachers. Results are as follows: (1) In general, telephone, SMS and personal conversation were the top three frequently used ways of parent-teacher contact; The most frequent reason of parent-initiated contact was children’s academic decline, and that of teacher-initiated contact was pointing out the learning problems of students; (2)The relationship between parent-teacher contact frequency and students’ development is completely mediated by parent-teacher relation and teacher-student relation through two ways: parent- teacher contact frequency parent-teacher relationstudent’s development, and parent-teacher contact frequencyparent-teacher relationteacher-student relationstudent’s development.

Author

• Linyuan Deng, Beijing Normal University