Grade 7 Students’ Parenting Styles, Self – Efficacy Levels, and Problem Solving Performance in Elementary Algebra

Analyn P. Guro

Abstract


The present study aimed to determine the parents ‘parenting styles of the 115 Grade 7 students of MSU-Marantao and how these affect their self- efficacy and problem solving performances in Elementary Algebra. Qualitative and quantitative research designs was used in the study using achievement test in math and survey questionnaires adapted from Bandura‘s and Schunk‘s Self- Efficacy Theory, Bandura‘s Social-Cognitive Theory, and on Weiner‘s academic achievement concept. Findings of the study revealed that parenting styles of the parents were authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive. Students that have authoritative parents have high self-esteem, confidence, social competence, and good academic performance. Achievement test showed that students’ problem solving performances were minimally low in mental math, addition, and subtraction operations. Majority of them did not know appropriate approach in solving the problem. It was found that, between the students’ academic self-efficacy and the parents’ parenting styles, there was significant relationship; a significant relationship was also found between the student’s social self-efficacy and  parent’s authoritarian parenting style, students‘  emotional  self-efficacy vis-à-vis the  parents‘ authoritative  and authoritarian parenting styles, the students‘ performances in Elementary Algebra and the parents‘ authoritarian parenting style and students‘ problem solving performances in Elementary Algebra and self-efficacy. Thus, the school should regularly hold activities that could enhance and challenge students’ mathematical ability and proficiency, to boost their ego to keep and do well in their studies.


Keywords


parenting styles, self – efficacy levels, problem solving performance, elementary algebra

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