The Effect of Parent's Educational Aspirations on 4th-grade Student's Mathematics Achievement: Analysis of the Multiple Mediating Effects

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Abstract: To examine the relation between parent's educational aspirations and student's mathematics achievement, a sample of 2745 fourth graders (1125 Han students and 1620 minority students) from western China was used. The results showed that:1) Parent's educational aspirations were positively correlated with student's mathematics achievement. 2) Students' self-educational aspirations, mathematics learning motivation and mathematics anxiety played mediating roles in the correlation, and "mathematics learning motivation" -"mathematics anxiety" was a mediational chain. 3) The pathways of parent's educational aspirations influencing mathematics achievement differed significantly between Han students and the minority students. Firstly, the effect of parent's educational aspirations on students' self-educational aspirations was stronger in the minority students than that in Han students; secondly, the effect of parent's educational aspirations on students' learning motivation was weaker in the minority students than that in Han students.

Key words: parent's educational aspirations, self-educational aspirations, learning motivation, mathematics anxiety, mathematics achievement

摘要： 以我国西部2745名四年级学生为被试，探究父母教育期望与学生数学成就的关系。结果如下：（1）父母教育期望正向预测学生的数学成就；（2）学生的自我期望、数学学习动机和数学焦虑起积极的中介作用，学习动机—数学焦虑起消极的链式中介作用；（3）父母教育期望对学生数学成就的影响存在民族差异，汉族群体父母教育期望对学生自我期望的预测作用小于少数民族群体，但对学生学习动机的预测作用大于在少数民族群体。

关键词: 父母教育期望, 自我教育期望, 学习动机, 数学焦虑, 数学成就

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WANG Yehui, ZHANG Yingbin, XIN Tao. The Effect of Parent's Educational Aspirations on 4^th-grade Student's Mathematics Achievement: Analysis of the Multiple Mediating Effects[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2018, 16(1): 96-102.

王烨晖, 张缨斌, 辛涛. 父母教育期望对四年级学生数学成就的影响：多重中介效应分析[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2018, 16(1): 96-102.

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The Effect of Parent's Educational Aspirations on 4^th-grade Student's Mathematics Achievement: Analysis of the Multiple Mediating Effects

父母教育期望对四年级学生数学成就的影响：多重中介效应分析

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