Parent perceptions and attributions for children's math achievement
dc.contributor.author | Yee, Doris K. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Eccles, Jacquelynne S. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T16:14:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T16:14:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1988-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Yee, Doris K.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; (1988). "Parent perceptions and attributions for children's math achievement." Sex Roles 19 (5-6): 317-333. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45585> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-2762 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0360-0025 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45585 | |
dc.description.abstract | From junior high school on, girls report lower estimations of their math ability and express more negative attitudes about math than do boys, despite equivalent performance in grades. Parents show this same sex-typed bias. This paper examines the role that attributions may play in explaining these sex differences in parents' perceptions of their children's math ability. Mothers and fathers of 48 junior high school boys and girls of high, average, and low math ability completed questionnaires about their perceptions of their child's ability and effort in math, and their causal attributions for their child's successful and unsuccessful math performances. Parents' math-related perceptions and attributions varied with their child's level of math ability and gender. Parents credited daughters with more effort than sons, and sons with more talent than daughters for successful math performances. These attributional patterns predicted sex-linked variations in parents' ratings of their child's effort and talent. No sex of child effects emerged for failure attributions; instead, lack of effort was seen as the most important, and lack of ability as the least important, cause of unsuccessful math performances for both boys and girls. Implications of these attributions for parents' influence on children's developing self-concept of math ability, future expectancies, and subsequent achievement behaviors are discussed. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Interdisciplinary Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology/Archaeometry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Developmental Psychology | en_US |
dc.title | Parent perceptions and attributions for children's math achievement | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Women's and Gender Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Box 345, 80309, Boulder, Colorado | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45585/1/11199_2004_Article_BF00289840.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00289840 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Sex Roles | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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