Paternal Parenting Styles and Academic Performance in different subjects: The mediating Role of Academic self-efficacy

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Abstract

To explore the relationship among paternal parenting styles, academic self-efficacy and academic performance in different subjects, enhance fathers’ parenting awareness and ability, and promote the formation of a more scientific division of labor and cooperation model within family. The study investigated 608 students from grades four to six in cities in the southeast of Zhejiang Province, China. The results indicated that positive paternal parenting styles positively predicted achievement in all four subjects, while negative paternal parenting styles negatively predicted achievement in Chinese, Mathematics, and Science. Given the inherent uniqueness of different academic subjects, the mediating roles of self-efficacy in learning ability and learning behavior between paternal parenting styles and subject-specific academic achievement varied.

Author

• Ruobing Wang, East China Normal University