How Do Parents' Beliefs and Behavior Affect Students' Media Self-Efficacy?

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 6
  In Poster Session: Motivation and Self-Regulation in Technology-Based Environments

Abstract

Besides how teachers use technology in the classroom, parents at home may also have a pivotal role in shaping their children’s success in learning with digital media. Following Eccles et al.’s socialization model (1983), parents’ beliefs predict parents’ behaviors which in turn shape students’ beliefs. Therefore, we investigate how parents’ intrinsic, utility, and attainment values of using digital media as well as the relative opportunity and emotional costs may predict students’ media self-efficacy and whether parents’ behaviors including modeling and provision of digital media mediate this relation. Results show that parents’ utility and intrinsic values affect students’ media self-efficacy while parents’ behaviors do not, suggesting that students’ beliefs about digital media may develop in a unique way unlike traditional domains.

Authors

• Molly Hammer, Hector Institute

• Katharina Scheiter, Knowledge Media Research Center

• Benjamin Caspar Fauth, University of Tübingen

• Kathleen Stürmer, University of Tübingen