The influence mechanism of the parent-child relationship on adolescent academic performance: The serial mediating effect of parental expectations and self-expectations

Abstract

Much attention has been paid to the relationship between parent-child relationships and adolescent academic performance, especially the mediating role of subjective educational expectations of parents and children. However, most of the research is a single study on parents' or children's educational expectations, and there is a lack of overall research on the independent components and combined effects of the subjective educational expectations system. Based on a large sample of 8867 middle school students, this study showed that parental expectation and self-expectation not only had independent indirect effects on parent-child relationship and academic performance, but also had a series of mediating effects together. The parental expectation was the strongest indirect influencing factor. These findings contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the deep mediating mechanism of educational expectations between parent-child relationship and academic performance in adolescents, and provide important new ideas for educational design practices in home-school co-education.