A Study of Adolescent′s School Adjustment in Poor Families - With the mediating role of maternal involvement

저소득층 청소년의 학교생활 적응에 관한 연구 - 어머니의 자녀교육 참여의 매개역할을 중심으로

The purposes of this study are to explore mother's involvement in children's education and to examine its impacts on the school adjustment of poor family children. A total of 171 low-income mothers and their children attending middle school completed a structured questionnaire. Overall, the results show that the mothers tend to involve in their children's education to some degree. But the extent of maternal involvement is not uniform across the types of involvement. In order to analyze factors that affect the school adjustment which is measured as grades and attitudes toward school life, path analysis is perfomed. The affective parenting is found to have indirect effects on school adjustment of middle school students through maternal involvement in their children's education.