THE IMPACT OF PERCEIVED PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT ON STUDENT SUCCESS
THE IMPACT OF PERCEIVED PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT ON STUDENT SUCCESS

Summary/Abstract: This research focus on how the high school students perceive theirfamilies support, whether this perceived support from the mother,father or both influence their academic performance and their levelof self-esteem and self-efficacy. There were investigated 140 highschool students from Brasov County. The study’s instruments are 3questionnaires that measure the quality of parent-child relationship,self-esteem and self-efficacy. The results show that self-esteem andacademic achievement are positively correlated with supportivebehaviors of mothers toward their adolescents. The student’s motherssupport their children’s educational needs in greater extent thantheir fathers do. More often the students’ perception of their fatherssupport and involvement is far less perceived and felt by respondents,as against to the support perceived from their mother. A relationshipwas found between students’ academic achievement at exact science(chemistry, physics) and supportive behaviors of mothers.

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