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Father Involvement and Father-Child Attachment Security and Its Relation to Self-Beliefs, Sense of School Belongingness and Academic Achievement Among Turkish University Students

Yurtsever, Tugce LU (2019) PSYP02 20191
Department of Psychology
Abstract
Despite some evidence that the father’s role is particularly crucial for the child’s academic experiences and performance, only a few studies have examined influences of father involvement and the child’s attachment security on the child’s self-beliefs, sense of school belongingness and academic achievement, and the focus has been mostly on Western cultures. The present study investigated these links in Turkish university students, also looking at the potential relationship between father-child attachment security and academic self-efficacy and achievement. Students (N=192) completed a narrative-based method for assessing attachment scripts and an online questionnaire for the assessment of academic belongingness, self-efficacy and... (More)
Despite some evidence that the father’s role is particularly crucial for the child’s academic experiences and performance, only a few studies have examined influences of father involvement and the child’s attachment security on the child’s self-beliefs, sense of school belongingness and academic achievement, and the focus has been mostly on Western cultures. The present study investigated these links in Turkish university students, also looking at the potential relationship between father-child attachment security and academic self-efficacy and achievement. Students (N=192) completed a narrative-based method for assessing attachment scripts and an online questionnaire for the assessment of academic belongingness, self-efficacy and achievement. Results showed that father involvement during childhood was associated with self-esteem and sense of school belongingness in university years. However, father involvement in childhood was not related to attachment, and thus, attachment security did not mediate the relationship between father involvement in childhood and academic success in university. The self-report method for measuring academic self-efficacy and success may be a considerable limitation in the study. Nonetheless, findings highlight the importance of fathering behaviours during childhood for academic experiences and achievement also in early adulthood and extend the literature by contributing non-Western data. (Less)
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author
Yurtsever, Tugce LU
supervisor
organization
course
PSYP02 20191
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Father involvement, attachment, secure base script, sense of school belongingness, self-esteem, academic self-efficacy, academic achievement, university students
language
English
id
8994581
date added to LUP
2019-09-11 08:43:28
date last changed
2019-09-11 08:43:28
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  abstract     = {{Despite some evidence that the father’s role is particularly crucial for the child’s academic experiences and performance, only a few studies have examined influences of father involvement and the child’s attachment security on the child’s self-beliefs, sense of school belongingness and academic achievement, and the focus has been mostly on Western cultures. The present study investigated these links in Turkish university students, also looking at the potential relationship between father-child attachment security and academic self-efficacy and achievement. Students (N=192) completed a narrative-based method for assessing attachment scripts and an online questionnaire for the assessment of academic belongingness, self-efficacy and achievement. Results showed that father involvement during childhood was associated with self-esteem and sense of school belongingness in university years. However, father involvement in childhood was not related to attachment, and thus, attachment security did not mediate the relationship between father involvement in childhood and academic success in university. The self-report method for measuring academic self-efficacy and success may be a considerable limitation in the study. Nonetheless, findings highlight the importance of fathering behaviours during childhood for academic experiences and achievement also in early adulthood and extend the literature by contributing non-Western data.}},
  author       = {{Yurtsever, Tugce}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Father Involvement and Father-Child Attachment Security and Its Relation to Self-Beliefs, Sense of School Belongingness and Academic Achievement Among Turkish University Students}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}