Transgenerational Transmission: An Investigation of Parents’ Achievement Motives, Achievement Imagery in Children’s Books and Children’s Academic Performance

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Research in Personality Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI:10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104569

J. Malte Runge , Birk Hagemeyer , Franz J. Neyer , Stefan Engeser

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Abstract

We investigated the relationship between parents’ implicit and explicit achievement motives and their children’s academic performance, examining whether achievement imagery in children’s books mediated this relationship. For N = 178 parents, we assessed achievement motives, prevalence of achievement imagery in children’s books at home, parental educational expectation, and children’s academic performance in Grade 4. The findings support a positive relationship between parents’ achievement motives and children’s performance, with some support for educational expectation. However, there was no evidence that achievement imagery mediated this relationship. Parents’ achievement motives did not correlate significantly with achievement imagery, nor did achievement imagery show expected positive relationships with grades. The implications for transgenerational transmission of achievement striving are discussed.

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Journal of Research in Personality PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

5.40

自引率

6.10%

发文量

102

审稿时长

67 days

期刊介绍： Emphasizing experimental and descriptive research, the Journal of Research in Personality presents articles that examine important issues in the field of personality and in related fields basic to the understanding of personality. The subject matter includes treatments of genetic, physiological, motivational, learning, perceptual, cognitive, and social processes of both normal and abnormal kinds in human and animal subjects. Features: • Papers that present integrated sets of studies that address significant theoretical issues relating to personality. • Theoretical papers and critical reviews of current experimental and methodological interest. • Single, well-designed studies of an innovative nature. • Brief reports, including replication or null result studies of previously reported findings, or a well-designed studies addressing questions of limited scope.