The Role of Parents in College Students' Sociopolitical Awareness, Academic, and Social Development
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This study examined the relationship between parental contact (frequency of student-parent communication) and involvement (parents’ interest and/or involvement in students’ academic progress and decision-making) with college students’ personal, social, and academic development. Parental involvement accounted for over two-thirds of the significant relationships detected, most of which were positive. Parental contact produced only 10 significant relationships, half of which were negative. The results also reveal conditional effects by race, gender, social class, and year in college.
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Positive links between parent-student communication and relationship quality are well documented.
“Parent-student communication is generally understood as a key mechanism by which parents can have a positive influence during emerging adulthood and maintain high-quality relationships with their college student (Lowe & Dotterer, 2018), and positive links between parent-student communication and relationship quality are well documented (Cui et al., 2022;Gentzler et al., 2011;Harper et al., 2012;St”
From Daily Communication Between First-Year College Students and Their Parents: Associations With Perceived Relationship Positivity (2024) · cites this paper as Harper et al., 2012
Differences in parent-student communication during college by racial and ethnic identity have been documented.
“Differences in parent-student communication during college by racial and ethnic identity have also been documented (e.g., Harper et al., 2012;Wolf et al., 2009).”
From Daily Communication Between First-Year College Students and Their Parents: Associations With Perceived Relationship Positivity (2024) · cites this paper as Harper et al., 2012
The present findings are consistent with primarily cross-sectional findings that parental communication is positively correlated with relationship quality among emerging adult students.
“Results are consistent with primarily crosssectional findings indicating that parental communication is positively correlated with relationship quality among emerging adults students (Gentzler et al., 2011;Harper et al., 2012;Stein et al., 2016).”
From Daily Communication Between First-Year College Students and Their Parents: Associations With Perceived Relationship Positivity (2024) · cites this paper as Harper et al., 2012
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- Authors
- Harper, C. E., Sax, L. J., & Wolf, D. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Missouri (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Loyola University Chicago (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-04
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 137-156
- ISSN
- 0027-6014 (ISSN-L)
- 1949-6591
- 1949-6605
- OpenAlex
- W2124983623
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 13.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- NASPA Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › Parental Involvement in Education
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Keywords
- parental involvement, student-parent communication, university students, sociopolitical consciousness, academic development, social development (developmental psychology), race, gender, social class, year in college
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