The Influence of Parental Support on Student Engagement through Self-System Processes

Abstract

Nowadays studies concerning student engagement, examine the aspects of self-system processes individually. However, little knowledge of how all aspects of self-system processes influence student engagement together. To fill this gap, researchers conducted a study aimed at analyzing the effects of parental support on student engagement through self-system processes. Parental support is support consisting of structure, autonomy and involvement. The self-system processes consist of sense of relatedness, sense of autonomy, and sense of competence. Participants in this research were 632 high school students from 8 public high schools selected from 8 school areas in Bandung used random sampling technique. All measuring instruments for this research which consist of parental support, student engagement, self-system processes are compiled by the research team based on Connell's theory. Data were analyzed by Partial Least Square (PLS) method. The results show that there is an influence of parental support on student engagement through self-system processes. Keywords—parental support; self-system processes; student engagement