Mothers and Fathers Involvement in their Children's Education and Other Future Outcomes
Jace Clarkson
Department of Psychology
Faculty Supervisor: Jeff Cookston
To further research in the areas of parent involvement in their children's education we conducted a latent class analysis to examine the role that mothers and fathers' involvement at school and home play in impacting educational attainment and life satisfaction outcomes. Participants were 392 7th graders with mothers, fathers and stepfathers coming from either White or Mexican American backgrounds. Here we found a 3-class solution indicating high involvement, moderate involvement, and low involvement groups for both mothers and fathers. However, distinctions between classes were more pronounced for fathers, whereas for mothers the largest differences were observed between the low involvement group and the moderate and high involvement groups.