Parental Sex-Stereotypic Influences on Selected Motivational Variables

ISBN-13: 9783639287035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 124 str.

Molla Haftu

Opis

Children acquire initial education and socialization from parents and significant others. In short, parents are the childs first teachers. Childrens motivational beliefs and their academic achievements may be influenced by the type and extent of feedback they receive about performance, messages from parents, and other adults about the childs ability in a particular domain. Parental stereotypic attitudes have significant effects on childrens motivational beliefs and academic achievement. Children will have positive beliefs if the influence is positive, which, in turn, encourages them to achieve high. In this work, it is assumed that parents views of their childrens competencies are influenced by their interpretive belief systems. Parents sex-role belief systems affect the inferences parents draw from their childrens performance about their childrens competence in various sex-role stereotyped activity domains. These inferences, in turn, affect parents expectations for their childrens performance and then could affect childrens beliefs of their parents beliefs and sex-roles, childrens interpretations of experiences, and their academic achievement.

O autorze

Molla Haftu received his BA degree in Psychology from Addis Ababa University. He worked in the Abi Adi College of Teacher Education for a year. He joined the graduate program of Psychology in Bahir Dar University and graduated his MED in Educational Psychology, in 2009. Molla Haftu is a lecturer in Mekelle University, Psychology department.