Parental Achievement Orientation as Predictor of Academic Self-Efficacy and Need-Achievement of In-School Adolescents in Anambra State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated parental achievement orientation as predictor of academic self-efficacy and need-achievement of in-school adolescents in Anambra State, Nigeria. Six research questions and six null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted correlation research design with a population of 15,734 in-school adolescents. A sample of 1200 in- school adolescents were used for the study. Three (3) instruments, namely Parental Achievement Orientation Scale (PAOS), Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (ASES) and Need-Achievement Scale (NAS) were used as instruments for data collection. The instruments were face validated by three validators from the Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Reliability indices of 0.79, 0.79 and 0.88 were obtained for the three (3) instruments respectively. Data collected were analysed using multiple regression analysis. Co-efficient of determination was used to answer the research questions while analysis of variance was used to test null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Among the findings it was revealed that parental achievement orientation correlated positively with in-school adolescents’ academic need-achievement. Therefore, the study concluded that parental achievement orientation significantly correlated positively with in-school adolescent academic self-afficacy and their need-achievement. The implication of this finding is that parents should imbibe positive and high achievement orientation in their children. It was recommended, among others, that parents should adequately lend support to, and encourage their adolescents to be positive in their academics in order to boost their academic self-efficacy and need-achievement.