The Relationship Between Parenting Styles and Adolescents' Academic Achievement

Abstract

Adolescents are in the critical period of rapid physical and mental growth, fulfillment of academic tasks, realization of self-worth, and the important moment of self-awareness awakening. The family environment for adolescents' learning and life has a non-negligible impact. This paper adopts the research method of literature review and collects more than 40 related Chinese and foreign literatures, aiming to further explore the direct and indirect relationship between parenting styles and adolescents' academic performance, and give corresponding suggestions. This paper is divided into four parts, the first part of parenting styles includes the definition and characterization of parenting styles, and the comparison of parenting styles under different cultural and racial differences. The second part of the direct relationship extracts the mainstream views on the direct relationship between parenting styles and adolescents' academic performance from the literature from different aspects, including different academic disciplines, different races, and parents, and so on. The third part of the indirect relationship is mainly discussed through two mediating roles of self-efficacy and self-concept, self-efficacy including the definition and expression as well as the characteristic dimensions, and self-concept including the definition and its influence as a mediator. The fourth part of the conclusion gives the following suggestions: increasing the proportion of authoritative parenting, giving positive emotional support to children to enhance their self-efficacy in learning, providing guidance to help children recognize themselves and establishing a correct self-concept at an early stage.