Psychological Development and Education ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (4): 489-496.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2018.04.13

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How Parental Educational Expectations Influence Student Academic Burnout: The Mediating Role of Educational Involvement and Moderating Role of Family Functioning

LI Ruoxuan, ZHU Wenlong, LIU Hongrui, YAO Meilin   

  1. Beijing Key Lab of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • Online:2018-07-15 Published:2018-07-15

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Abstract: The present study explored the association between parental educational expectations and student academic burnout, and the potential impacts of parental involvement and family functioning between parental expectations and academic burnout. 2921 students (Mage=12.56, SD=1.53, 1624 males and 1297 females) and their parents were recruited from 10 primary and middle schools in Beijing, China. Students completed paper questionnaires of student academic burnout, and parents completed measurements of parental educational expectations, parental involvement and family functioning. The results showed that parental educational expectations negatively predicted students' academic burnout. Furthermore, the relationship between parental educational expectations and students' academic burnout was mediated by parental involvement. Specifically, high expectations enhanced the level of parental involvement, and it in turn decreased students' academic burnout. Besides, family functioning moderated the association between parental involvement and students' academic burnout. Parental involvement only alleviate students' academic burnout when they have warm family atmosphere, intimate relationships and well family functioning. Those findings reveal the complex mechanism of parental expectations on children academic burnout, and highlight future intervention of reducing students' academic burnout may start from encouraging parents to be involved more in children's academic life, and enhancing family functioning.

Key words: parental educational expectations, academic burnout, parental involvement, family functioning

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  • B844

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