Relations Between Parenting Self-Efficacy and Mothers' Partner Relationship Satisfaction, Life Stress, and Parent Involvement

• In Event: Parent Self-Efficacy, Advocacy, and Home-School Relations

Abstract

This study aims to examine the relationship between certain social-emotional conditions in the lives of American mothers of early-elementary children and their parenting self-efficacy (PSE), as well as the relationship between the mothers’ PSE and parent involvement (PI), which has been shown to be important in children’s academic success. Multiple linear regression results indicate that, with demographics controlled, mothers’ PSE is significantly positively associated with partner relationship satisfaction and significantly negatively associated with perceived life stress. Logistic regression analysis indicates that the odds of high PI are significantly greater as mothers’ PSE increases, although Asian mothers have lower odds of high PI for a given level of PSE compared with White mothers.

Authors

• Emily J. Campbell, 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

• Soojung Kim, University of California - Berkeley