The Effect of Parenting Styles on Academic Self-Efficacy, Resilience, and Help Seeking

Parenting is a balance of behaviors that can influence a child’s outcome. Twenty-eight undergraduate college students completed ratings of parenting styles, resilience, and help-seeking behaviors, as well as academic self-efficacy. None of these variables were significant predictors of academic self-efficacy, although significant positive correlations were found between an authoritative parenting style and the variables of help-seeking and resilience. Help-seeking and academic self-efficacy were negatively correlated, suggesting that students with lower academic self-efficacy reported a higher willingness to seek help. Implications of these findings for both mental health counselors and university student support staff are discussed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Mental Health Counseling

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Gonzalez, Ana

Contributors dc:contributor

• Susan Lonborg
• Meaghan Nolte
• Fred Washburn

• Parenting
• Academic Self-Efficacy
• Resilience
• Help Seeking
• Counseling
• Mental and Social Health
• Psychiatry and Psychology
• Psychology

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/594

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1604