BECE. Newsletter 

Vol.8, No.1, 2021 1065 

 

 

 

 

Effects of Parental Academic Involvement and Aca-

demic Pressure on Early Adolescents’ Academic En-

gagement 

By Zhang, Y., Chen, J., Yang, M., Ren, P., & Liu, S. 
Correspondence to: Yang, M., Beijing Normal University, China. Email: 

ym907728@ 163.com 

OW can parents actively involved in children’s academic engagement 

while avoiding negative influences, for the purpose of students’ better 

adjustment to the requirements of junior high school and forming a benign 

development? A study published in Psychological Development and Educa-

tion, with 2,487 first-year junior students as research objects, respectively 

analyzed the effects of parental academic involvement and academic pres-

sure on early academic engagement of adolescents, which provides certain 

assistance for improving the academic engagement level of adolescents from 

the perspective of family. 

The results are as follow: 

 Parents’ influences on children’s academic development generate 

from cultivating children’s learning motivation. Parental academic 

involvement can help the adolescents stimulate internal motivation, 

so as to put more effort into learning. Under this circumstance, stu-

dents are involved, interested, and aiming for self-improvement. 

 Parental academic pressure leads to adolescents’ academic burnout 

and even disengaging from the learning situation. In order to make 

the adolescents more focused on learning, parents could actively 

participate in their children’s study, providing their children with 

learning tools and emotional support, and also paying attention to 

avoid putting pressure on their children. 

 When parents participate in the education of their children, especial-

ly for those with good grades, it is suggested that they reduce com-

pulsory or negative behavioral intervention to release students’ bur-

den. As for students with poor grades, parents’ help and support 

should concentrate on personally practice on children’s education 

process, in this way can they help their children cultivate suitable 

achievement goal orientation, enhancing intrinsic motivation, and 

promoting academic engagement. 

 

Source: Psychological Development and Education, 2021; 37(2):211-221. 

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