Constituents of A Student’s Academic Success
A Student’s academic success is a very complicated issue, which is referred to and depends on many factors both inside the personality of a Student and outside it. The closest surrounding of the person from the early childhood influences his/her ability to learn and process information.
The factors, which are going to be discusses as having influence on academic success of the students, are the following: person’s self-esteem, parental self-efficacy and romantic relationship.
If to speak of self-esteem a variety of beliefs about oneself is included. For example, one’s own appearance appraisal, emotions, behaviours etc. (Santrock, 2010). Braden gives 3 essential features of self-esteem: self-esteem is basic human need for survival and normal development; it arises automatically from the person’s consciousness; it occurs together with the person’s actions, thoughts, feelings and behaviours (Amatea, 2009).
Parental self-efficacy plays a significant role in family and children functioning. Essentially, the concept of parental self-efficacy is the part of the broader concept of self-efficacy and can be defined as the expectations caregivers hold about their ability to parent successfully (Christenson, 2010). Regarding the children-related domains such as child behavior, socio-emotional functioning and achievement at school parental self-efficacy is crucial. Thus, children’s adequate interaction and signaling ability is directly related to the mother’s self-efficacy.
The issue of romantic relationship is also proved to influence significantly students’ academic success, especially in high school. The emotional and hormone stimuli affect the ability of the person to perceive and process academic information, his/her motivation to learn.
Students’ academic success depends on many factors, which organize the personality of the students.
References
Amatea, E. S. (2009). Building culturally responsive family-school relationships. Upper
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Christenson, SL. (2010). Engaging with parents: the power of information,
responsiveness to parental need, and ongoing support for the enhanced competence of all students. National Association of School Psychologists, Communique, 39(1).
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