Browsing by Subject "Autonomous motivation"

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    Parental autonomy support and homework completion: Mediating effects of children’s academic self-efficacy, purpose for doing homework, and homework-related emotions
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Valdés Cuervo, Angel A.; Grijalva Quiñonez, Christian S.; Parra Pérez, Lizeth G.
    Parenting qualities may affect children’s homework achieve-ment. The present study examined the relationship among parental au-tonomy support, children’s academic self-efficacy, learning-oriented pur-poses for doing homework, positive homework-related emotions, and homework completion. The sample included 984 children (M age = 10.68 years, SD = 0.63), 502 (51%) boys and 482 (49%) girls from elementary schools of Sonora, Mexico. A structural model and multigroup invari-ance by gender and academic achievement was calculated. The structural model indicated that parental autonomy support had a direct positive rela-tion with children’s academic self-efficacy, learning-oriented purposes, and positive emotions in homework; it also had an indirect effect in homework completion by its positive association with these psychologi-cal resources. A multi-group analysis indicates that gender and academic achievement did not moderate the structural relations. Overall, findings suggest that parental autonomy support is critical to promote homework completion in elementary school children.