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Parental involvement and achievement motivation: association with students' achievement in vocational colleges, Malaysia


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Omar, Rosmaria and Ahmad, Nor Aniza and Hassan, Siti Aishah and Roslan, Samsilah (2017) Parental involvement and achievement motivation: association with students' achievement in vocational colleges, Malaysia. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 7 (14). pp. 11-24. ISSN 2222-6990

Abstract

This study to identify the relationships between parental involvement and achievement motivation with an objective measure of the students’ achievement through students’ perception in vocational colleges, Malaysia. The study also examined the mediating effects of achievement motivation with students’ achievement and moderating role of gender for the link between parental involvement, achievement motivation and students’ achievement. Three hundred and sixty students (106 girls and 264 boys) were selected at thirteen vocational colleges students’ all around Malaysia. Our results showed that parental involvement were positively related with achievement motivation and students’ achievement which in turns achievement motivation also related to students’ achievement. There is full mediation effects between achievement motivation and parental involvement with students’ achievement. While gender were moderately correlated between achievement motivation and students’ achievement. The findings contribute to understanding commonly reported the relationships between parental involvement and achievement motivation elements with students’ achievement among the students in vocational colleges.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Educational Studies
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v7-i14/3648
Publisher: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
Notes: Special issue - 4th International Conference on Educational Research and Practice 2017
Keywords: Parental involvement; Achievement motivation; Students' achievement; Vocational colleges
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2018 07:21
Last Modified: 23 Feb 2018 07:59
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/59170
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