An analysis of longitudinal reciprocal relationships among married immigrant women’s school involvement, parenting self-efficacy, and their children’s school adjustment at middle school
AUTHOR : 임양미
INFORMATION : page. 1~27 / 2020 Vol.27 No.2
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to examine the reciprocal relationships among married immigrant women’s school involvement, parenting self-efficacy, and school adjustment in adolescent children. I used three-wave longitudinal data-measured at the first grade, the second grade, and the third grade of middle school-of 1,192 adolescents and foreign mothers who participated in the Multicultural Adolescent Panel Survey conducted by NYPI. An autoregressive cross-lagged modeling analysis revealed the following: the levels of foreign mothers school involvement, parenting self-efficacy, and adolescents’ school adjustment tended to be stable over time. Further, the positive effect of foreign mothers’ school involvement on parenting self-efficacy was only significant, but not vice versa. Thirdly, the reciprocal relationships between foreign mothers’ parenting self-efficacy and adolescents’ school adjustment were all significant. Additionally, the positive effect of adolescents’ school adjustment on foreign mothers’ school involvement was only significant, but not vice versa. By identifying the transactional relationships among foreign mothers’ school involvement, parenting self-efficacy, and school adjustment in adolescent children, this study suggested ways to activate foreign mothers’ school involvement and the need for schools to offer continuous guidance and counseling in order to promote school adjustment in multicultural adolescents and to increase parenting self-efficacy.