Changes in math motivation profiles among adolescents with non-college-educated parents: Relations to perceived parent support, teacher support, and academic outcomes.
Abstract
). Adolescents' math motivational profiles were somewhat stable, with about half of students remaining in their same profile from ninth to 11th grade. Perceived parent and teacher supports were positively related to changing into stronger motivational belief profiles, and adolescents in stronger motivational belief profiles had stronger science, technology, engineering, and math outcomes than adolescents in lower motivational belief profiles. Our findings indicate that although adolescents' math motivational beliefs were somewhat stable, many high school students' math motivational beliefs changed across high school and that perceived parent and teacher support was positively associated with the adolescents' math motivational belief profiles. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
Fields of Study & Subjects
Parental Involvement in Education
Education
Achievement
and Giftedness
Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Developmental Psychology
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1769–1786
- Publication date
- 19 February 2026
- Language
- EN