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The cross-lagged relations between children’s academic skill development, task-avoidance, and parental beliefs about success.
Marja-kristiina LerkkanenPoikkeus Anna-maijaJari-erik NurmiHelena Rasku-puttonenKatrin MägiKatrin Mägisubject
Longitudinal studyeducationContext (language use)Predictor variablesSkill developmentbehavioral disciplines and activitiesEducationDevelopmental psychologyMath skillsCross laggedDevelopmental and Educational Psychologyta516PsychologyTask avoidancepsychological phenomena and processesReading skillsta515description
Abstract This longitudinal study investigated the cross-lagged associations between children’s academic skill development, task-avoidant behaviour in the context of homework, and parental beliefs about their child’s success from kindergarten to Grade 2. The participants were 1267 children. The children’s pre-skills were assessed at the end of the kindergarten year, and math and reading skills at the end of Grade 1 and Grade 2. Parents provided ratings of their beliefs about their children’s school success and task-avoidant behaviour with regard to homework at the end of Grades 1 and 2. The results showed that children’s math and reading skills predicted children’s task-avoidant behaviour regarding homework as rated by mothers, but not by fathers, when autoregressive effects were taken into account. In addition, task-avoidant behaviour predicted the mothers’ subsequent beliefs about their children’s school success but not vice versa. A reciprocal effect was found between fathers’ beliefs about success and children’s task-avoidance.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-10-01 | Learning and Instruction |