Latino Parent Home-based Practices That Bolster Student Academic Persistence

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine A. Mena
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Latino Students ◽  
Academic Persistence ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Academic Attitudes ◽  
School Year ◽  
Home Based

Home-based parental involvement practices (i.e., educational encouragement, monitoring, and support) and their impact on students’ academic persistence were investigated with a sample of 137, ninth-grade Latino students in a northeast high school. Structural Equation Modeling results indicate that the relationship between home-based parental involvement activities and students’ intentions to complete the next school year is mediated by students’ school beliefs (i.e., perceptions of school responsiveness, school engagement-trouble, academic attitudes, and academic self-efficacy). Home-based parental involvement influences children’s attitudes and beliefs about school culminating in students’ intentions to persevere academically. This study addresses the common misperception that Latino parents are not involved in their children’s formal education. An important implication of this study is that parents can have an impact on students’ academic persistence even if they are not able to attend school-based activities.

Family Contributions to School Performance of Adolescents: The Role of Fathers’ Perceived Involvement

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2199414
Author(s):  
Miguel Morales-Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
School Based ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Perceived Involvement ◽  
Cross Sectional Design

Parental involvement is a valuable contribution to early adolescent behavior, particularly in educational contexts. This study analyzes the role of father’s socioeconomic status (SES) and perceived involvement (PI) when understanding school performance (SP) of adolescents, considering that involvement could be expressed as home-based and school-based. In a cross-sectional design, a sample from Colombia (South America) composed of 419 fathers (mean age = 42.2 years; SD = 7.37) and their adolescents (mean age = 12.63 years; SD = 0.86) completed self-administered questionnaires to measure SES, PI, and SP, and structural equation modeling was used to evaluate relations. Results indicate that the contribution of fathers to adolescent SP implies PI, considering that the direct effect of SES on SP is significant but small in comparison to the mediated path through PI. This article addresses the relevance of father’s contribution through involvement to understand the SP of adolescents, suggesting issues for studying the role of fathers in the adolescent’s outcomes.

Home-Based Teleshopping and Shopping Travel

2005 ◽  
Vol 1926 (1) ◽  
pp. 212-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher E. Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Home Shopping ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Shopping Trips ◽  
Shopping Travel

Structural equation modeling techniques were used to explore the tradeoffs that people make when teleshopping from home. Early in the development and growth of online shopping, many assumed that it would become a direct substitute for traditional retail (out-of-home) shopping and thereby reduce shopping trips and vehicle miles traveled. A growing body of research on the interplay between the use of information and communications technologies suggests that people shop and travel for a multitude of reasons that depend on the interplay between lifestyle, availability and convenience of shopping opportunities and the demands of other activities during the day. Using the San Francisco Bay Area Travel Survey 2000 from California, this paper performs an activities analysis to investigate these relationships. Time use variables predict the amount of time each individual spends during the day on work, maintenance, discretionary, and shopping activities both inside and outside the home. These activities are used to predict the amount of shopping travel each person undertook. Results suggest that people substitute home teleshopping time for shopping travel time and that teleshoppers take fewer shopping trips and travel shorter total distances for shopping purposes. Variables constructed to represent the degree to which people are “time-starved” from the demands of their work and maintenance activities revealed that female heads of households tend to teleshop more, make more shopping trips and shopping trip chains, do more out-of-home shopping, and shop travel for longer periods than the rest of the survey population.

Understanding Academic Persistence through the Theory of Planned Behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Roland ◽  
Mariane Frenay ◽  
Gentiane Boudrenghien
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Academic Persistence ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
First Year ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Descriptive Norms ◽  
Normative Factors

High drop-out rates among first-year university students have led many researchers to attempt to gain a better understanding of academic persistence. However, despite this extensive literature, only a few studies have taken normative factors into account. These normative factors may be an essential factor of influence for persistence as it is already the case for other behaviors. We therefore decided to study whether including injunctive and descriptive norms in the investigation might improve the understanding of persistence. To this end, we focused on the theory of planned behaviour which considers for background, motivational, and normative factors. Seven hundred and twenty-seven first-year college students were asked to complete a self-report questionnaire. A structural equation modeling technique revealed that the model including injunctive norms fits better with the data than the model without norms. However, this was not the case with descriptive norms. These results are examined in the Discussion section. Finally, directions for future research and practical implications are suggested.

scholarly journals Modeling the Commuting Travel Activities within Historic Districts in Chinese Cities

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mao Ye ◽  
Miao Yu ◽  
Zhibin Li ◽  
Fengjun Yin ◽  
Qizhou Hu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Endogenous Variables

The primary objective of this study is to analyze the characteristics of commuting activities within the historical districts in cities of China. The impacts of various explanatory variables on commuters’ travels are evaluated using the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach. The household survey was conducted in the historical districts in Yangzhou, China. Based on the data, various individual and household attributes were considered exogenous variables, while the subsistence activity characteristics, travel times, numbers of three typical home-based trip chains, trip chains, and travel mode were considered as the endogenous variables. Commuters in our study were classified into two main groups according to their working location, which were the commuters in the historic district and those out of the district. The modeling results show that several individual and household attributes of commuters in historic district have significant impacts on the characteristics of travel activities. Additionally, the characteristics of travel activities within the two groups are quite different, and the contributing factors related to commuting travels are different as well.

Adolescent Hope as a Mediator Between Parent-Child Connectedness and Adolescent Outcomes

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 853-879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Padilla-Walker ◽  
Sam A. Hardy ◽  
Katherine J. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Behavioral Outcomes ◽  
Internalizing Behavior ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Adolescent Outcomes ◽  
Parent Child

This study examines adolescent hope as a mediator between connectedness to mother and father, and positive and negative child outcomes. Participants included 489 adolescents aged 9 to 14 years ( M = 11.29; SD = 1.01) and their parents from the Flourishing Families Project, and data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results suggested that hope mediated the relation between child-reported parent-child connectedness and adolescents’ prosocial behavior, school engagement, and internalizing behavior. Mother-and father-reported connectedness were not related to adolescent hope but were directly related to behavioral outcomes. This study highlights the importance of adolescents’ cognitive-motivational processes for both positive and negative outcomes and has important implications for prevention and intervention programs.

Home-Based Telecommuting and Quality of Life: Further Evidence on an Employee-Oriented Human Resource Practice

2009 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Severin Hornung ◽  
Jürgen Glaser
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Human Resource Practice ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
Work Family

Building on previous research, further evidence for the potential of home-based telecommuting as an employee-oriented human resource practice is provided from a study in the German public administration. Survey data from 1,008 public employees were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Mean age of the sample was 43.6 yr. ( SD = 8.8 yr.), and 27.5% (277) of the participants were women. Analysis supported the roles of higher Autonomy and lower Work-Family Conflict as psychological mediators between Telecommunication Intensity and both Job Satisfaction and Quality of Life. Implications for the design of flexible working arrangements are discussed.

The Relationship Between Self-Regulatory Efficacy and Physical Activity in Adolescents With a Caveat: A Cross-Lag Design Examining Weather

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-216
Author(s):  
Kathleen S. Wilson ◽  
Kevin S. Spink
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Cold Weather ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
School Year ◽  
Warm Weather ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose: The use of self-efficacy to predict physical activity has a long history. However, this relationship is complex, as self-efficacy is thought to influence and be influenced by physical activity. The directionality of the self-regulatory efficacy (SRE) and physical activity relationship was examined using a cross-lagged design. A secondary purpose was to examine these relationships across differing weather conditions. Methods: Canadian adolescents (N = 337; aged between 13 and 18 years) completed the physical activity and SRE measures 4 times during a school year. Structural equation modeling was used to perform a cross-lag analysis. Results: The relationships between physical activity and SRE appeared to be weather dependent. During a more challenging weather period (eg, cold weather), the relationship between physical activity and SRE was bidirectional. However, no relationship emerged when the 2 constructs were assessed during a more optimal weather period (eg, warm weather). Conclusions: Some support has been provided for the bidirectional nature of the relationship between physical activity and SRE. The relationship appeared to be qualified by climate considerations, suggesting that future research examine how weather may relate not just to physical activity but also to the correlates of physical activity.

What Skills and Abilities Are Essential for Counseling on Learning Difficulties and Learning Strategies?

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Gerich ◽  
Simone Bruder ◽  
Silke Hertel ◽  
Monika Trittel ◽  
Bernhard Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Counseling Competence ◽  
Teacher Professionalization ◽  
Psychometric Models ◽  
Order Four

Counseling parents in supporting their children’s learning processes is increasingly emphasized in research on parental involvement and teacher professionalization as a central task of teachers. However, to date there have been few approaches of developing theoretical or psychometric models that describe the internal structure of teachers’ counseling competence in terms of specific skills and abilities as well as of explaining inter-individual differences. The purpose of the current study was to establish a model of teachers’ counseling competence in parent–teacher talks concerning students’ learning difficulties and learning strategies. In all, 357 teachers participated in the study, which was conducted by means of a scenario test. Structural equation modeling revealed the appropriateness of a second-order, four-dimensional model. Results provide numerous implications for teacher education and future research on teacher professionalization.

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