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Smith, Megan L. Moilanen, Kristin L. |
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Predicting Middle School Students' Academic Self-Esteem: Family- and School-Level Antecedents Presented: Washington DC, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Educational Research Association Keyword(s): Parenting Skills/Styles; Racial Differences; School Performance; Self-Esteem Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Middle school students' perception of their academic competence is important to their academic achievement. Studies have investigated academic self-esteem in relation to demographics, parenting, and school connectedness; yet few studies have included all these factors in one model. Study data were drawn from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (CNLSY-79, N=855). Prior academic self-esteem was most predictive of current academic self-esteem, followed by low levels of school disconnectedness, high levels of cognitively stimulating parenting and black race. Notably, feeling disconnected from school had more weight than parenting, familial SES, and race. Thus, efforts to foster students' connectedness to the school setting may compensate for contextual risk factors that may impede academic success. |
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Smith, Megan L. and Kristin L. Moilanen. "Predicting Middle School Students' Academic Self-Esteem: Family- and School-Level Antecedents." Presented: Washington DC, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 2016. |