TY - JOUR 
A1 - Prado Morales, Mirtha del
AU - Simón Rueda, Cecilia
AU - Aguirre Camacho, Aldo
AU - Alonso Tapia, Jesús
T1 - Parental Involvement and Family Motivational Climate as Perceived by Children: A Cross-cultural Study

Y1 - 2020
SN - 1135-755X

UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/10485
AB - The culture of a country may influence parental involvement in a student’s learning, making it more or less adequate. To
test this possibility, this study analyzes the cross-cultural validity of the learning-oriented Family Motivational Climate
model (FMC) as an index of parental involvement in students’ academic job and the FMC questionnaire (FMC-Q), as a
way of operationalizing it. A total of 583 Spanish and 448 Cuban students filled in the FMC-Q and the questionnaire of
perceived motivational changes resulting from parental practices. Confirmatory, cross-validation, and multi-group factor
analyses revealed that the model showed a good fit to the data, both in the Spanish and in the Cuban samples. Besides, FMC
predicted the 74% of the variance of students’ motivational change. However, the results also revealed differences between
the two samples in the FMC model set up, as Spanish and Cuban students did not put down the same significance to several
indicators of the model. These facts imply the need to take cultural differences into account when designing interventions
aimed at changing parental involvement practices
KW - Relación padres-hijos
KW - Calidad de la educación
KW - Actitud del estudiante
LA - eng
ER -