Capturing the Effect of Parental Involvement on Children in Education

The parents who involve themselves in the education of children at home, their children as a consequence, show good performance at school and as a result the performance of the school increases, as well. The parents make critical contributions to children behavior and their academic achievements, especially from preschool stages through high school. This study aims at to find out whether parental involvement affects student academic scores and whether or not children¿s self-efficacy mediates between parental involvement and students¿ scores.In this study, the candidate explanatory variable Parental involvement is found statistically significantly contributing towards the outcome variable Students¿ score; these results help us to accept hypothesis that there is a relationship between parental involvement and their children¿s academic achievement. Computations for direct and indirect mediation effects provide estimates of parental involvement exert 86.61 percent direct effect and 13.39 percent indirect (meditation) effect through mediator self-efficacy. Sobel test suggests that mediation effects of 13.39 percent are small but statistically significant.