Understanding when parental aspirations negatively affect student outcomes: The Case of aspiration-expectation inconsistency

• Main Author: Trinidad, Jose Eos R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: Student expectation; Expectancy-value theory; Status attainment; Strain theory; Aspiration-expectation inconsistency; Education; Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research; Educational Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/is-faculty-pubs/23; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191491X18301986
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Psychological and sociological studies have often shown how parental aspirations positively influence children’s academic outcomes. However, less is known about how outcomes are affected when parents have aspirations that are higher than the child’s expectations for himself or herself. In this study...