Parental Academic Involvement and Youth Well-Being in Post-Divorce Families

ABSTRACT

Using data from 340 divorced parents (58.2% mothers) with a child between 10- and 18-years-old, we tested if parental academic involvement was associated with youth post-divorce well-being. Results demonstrated that mothers’ academic involvement was associated with less youth internalizing and externalizing behavior. Additionally, fathers’ academic involvement was associated with less youth externalizing behavior. We also tested if parental warmth, youth disclosure, and/or parent-youth contact moderated any associations between parental academic involvement and youth well-being. There were no significant moderation effects, however, parental warmth and youth disclosure were associated with greater prosocial behavior, but less internalizing and externalizing behavior by youth.

KEYWORDS:

• Academic involvement
• parenting
• youth adjustment
• divorce

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.