Parents' Impact on Children's School Performance: Marital Satisfaction, Parental Involvement, and Mental Health.
Objectives: The present study aims to formulate a conceptual model of the mediating factors between parents' marital satisfaction and children's academic performance, with a sample drawn from Hong Kong Chinese parents and children. The mediators included parental involvement, parents' psychopatholog...
| Published in: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 1548 - 1561 |
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