The Influence of Parental Conflict on Primary School Students' Academic Self-Efficacy

Siyuan Tang

doi:10.54097/0x4vc959

Authors

Siyuan Tang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/0x4vc959

Keywords:

Primary school students, parental conflict, academic self-efficacy.

Abstract

Parental conflict refers to the disputes and conflicts caused by the difference of parents' views in a family environment. This will have a negative influence on the child's psychology and behavior. Academic Self-efficacy (ASE) refers to students' overall belief in their capacity to cope with many different types of academic challenges in school and is an important prerequisite for well-being and academic performance. Parental conflict not only affects children's emotional development, but also their behavior and sense of academic self-efficacy. This experiment uses the method of questionnaire to study the effect of parental conflict on the academic self-efficacy of primary school children, hoping to provide some enlightenment and suggestions for educators and parents. The average score of academic self-efficacy was 70.95. The average parental conflict was 109.33. The intensity dimension was 15.57 and the frequency dimension was 14.04. The mean value of academic self-efficacy is slightly lower than the median, the mean value of parental conflict, the mean value of intensity and the mean value of frequency are much higher than the median. The results show that parental conflict frequency has a significant negative linear relationship with academic self-efficacy, there is no significant relationship between parental conflict intensity and academic self-efficacy. And there is a significant negative linear relationship between parental conflict and academic self-efficacy. The more parental conflict occurs, the lower children's academic self-efficacy will be. Parents should reduce conflict and ensure that children have a high sense of academic self-efficacy.

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