Parenting Styles on Children’s Academic Achievement Motivation in the U.S and Japan
Aiko C. Soriano
Los Angeles Harbor College
Abstract
Watabe and Hibbard (2014) compares the influence of parenting styles on children’s academic achievement between the United States and Japan. Parenting styles are correlated to a child’s academic motivation and ultimately to his/her overall success and accomplishments. The study was done using two questionnaires: The Parental Authority Questionnaire and the Achievement Goal Questionnaire (Watabe & Hibbard, 2014). In this study, it was found that there was no difference in academic achievement motivation between the United States’ authoritative parenting style and Japan’s authoritarian parenting …show more content…
The participants included 208 children from the United States and 312 children from Japan. Of the children from the United States, 117 of them were girls and 159 of them were boys. Of the children from Japan, 153 were girls and 159 were boys (Watabe & Hibbard, 2014). The study was a survey that consisted of two different questionnaires. One was the Parental Authority Questionnaire which measured perceived parenting style. The other was the Achievement Goal Questionnaire which measured children’s goals in achievement situations. The PAQ used the subscales parental comfort, parental closeness, parental encouragement, parental expectation, and obeying your parents to determined parenting style. The AGQ used the subscales enjoy school, excellent learn, do well, aspiration, and try hard to determine academic achievement motivation. The results of this study failed to support the hypothesis. For American children, there were high correlations that both authoritarian and authoritative were linked with enjoying school, wanting an excellent grade, wanting to do well in school, having aspirations, and trying hard in school. For Japanese children, both authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles were moderately associated with the same substyles in American children. This study shows that the two parenting styles, authoritative and authoritarian, have similar relationship with academic achievement motivation elements even with the two separate countries and cultures (Watabe & Hibbard,
Aiko C. Soriano
Los Angeles Harbor College
Abstract
Watabe and Hibbard (2014) compares the influence of parenting styles on children’s academic achievement between the United States and Japan. Parenting styles are correlated to a child’s academic motivation and ultimately to his/her overall success and accomplishments. The study was done using two questionnaires: The Parental Authority Questionnaire and the Achievement Goal Questionnaire (Watabe & Hibbard, 2014). In this study, it was found that there was no difference in academic achievement motivation between the United States’ authoritative parenting style and Japan’s authoritarian parenting …show more content…
The participants included 208 children from the United States and 312 children from Japan. Of the children from the United States, 117 of them were girls and 159 of them were boys. Of the children from Japan, 153 were girls and 159 were boys (Watabe & Hibbard, 2014). The study was a survey that consisted of two different questionnaires. One was the Parental Authority Questionnaire which measured perceived parenting style. The other was the Achievement Goal Questionnaire which measured children’s goals in achievement situations. The PAQ used the subscales parental comfort, parental closeness, parental encouragement, parental expectation, and obeying your parents to determined parenting style. The AGQ used the subscales enjoy school, excellent learn, do well, aspiration, and try hard to determine academic achievement motivation. The results of this study failed to support the hypothesis. For American children, there were high correlations that both authoritarian and authoritative were linked with enjoying school, wanting an excellent grade, wanting to do well in school, having aspirations, and trying hard in school. For Japanese children, both authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles were moderately associated with the same substyles in American children. This study shows that the two parenting styles, authoritative and authoritarian, have similar relationship with academic achievement motivation elements even with the two separate countries and cultures (Watabe & Hibbard,