Parent-teacher partnership and high school students’ development in mainland China: the mediating role of teacher-student relationship |
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| Authors: | Linyuan Deng Nan Zhou Ruihong Nie Peipei Jin Mengxi Yang |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China;2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | Parent-teacher partnership is associated closely with adolescents’ development. However, little is known about the association between parent-teacher partnership and Chinese high school students’ development. Therefore, this study examines whether and how parent-teacher partnership (objective contacts and subjective relationship quality) relates to high school students’ academic, career, and personal/social development among a national representative sample of 4,606 high school teachers from 61 high schools across 10 provinces of Mainland China. Both parent-teacher contacts and relationship were related to high school students’ development across all three domains (i.e., academic, career, and personal/social development). Parent-teacher relationship was more closely related to students’ developmental outcomes than parent-teacher contacts. Parent-teacher contacts were associated directly and indirectly with students’ developmental outcomes via parent-teacher relationship and teacher-student relationship. Implications for future studies and practice were discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Parent-teacher partnership parent-teacher contact parent-teacher relationship teacher-student relationship high school students’ development |
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