Relationships between adolescent and parental characteristics and adolescents' attitudes to school and self-rated academic performance

Abstract

The main aim of the present study was to examine the ability of self-reported adolescent and parental characteristics to predict adolescents' school attitudes and their self-rated academic performance. Data were collected from 347 Australian high school students in Years 9 and 10 and 236 of their parents. Students' self-reports of their neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, (Eysenckian) psychoticism, and school attitudes were obtained. Parents were asked to report on their levels of conscientiousness, psychoticism and child-rearing practices. Favourable attitudes to school correlated.57 (p