Parental influence on educational goals.

摘要: Analysis of data collected from ninth- and twelfth-grade boys their parents is directed toward determining whether parent-child agreement on goals can be accepted as evidence parental influence. The analysis leads to the following conclusions: (1) Parent-child cannot viewed a wholly spurious basis for imputing influence, although any simple measure tends overstate amount influence involved. (2) Agreement measures based child's report parent's lead different outcomes than those own report. (3) goal seems reflect projection his criteria goal-setting onto parents. (4) direct transmission parent child stronger among older boys, but paternal in form son's modeling father appears younger boys. No was found support hypothesis that varies with quality relationship.