The Impact of Parenting Styles on Middle School Students’ Learning Motivation

The Mediating Role of Subjective Learning Well-Being

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10.2991/978-2-38476-400-6_76How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Parenting styles; learning motivation; subjective learning well-being; family education

Abstract

To explore the relationship between parenting styles and the learning motivation of middle school students, mediated by their subjective learning well-being. Additionally, it aims to provide educational suggestions for improving parenting styles, enhancing subjective learning well-being, and shaping students’ learning motivation. Over 300 middle school students from a school in Y District, Xi’an, were surveyed using the short version of the s-EMBU-C parenting styles questionnaire, the learning motivation scale, and the subjective learning well-being questionnaire. SPSS 27.0 was employed for descriptive statistics, regression, and correlation analysis to determine the relationships among the three variables. At the same time, PROCESS was used to test the mediation model of subjective learning well-being. Parenting styles influence learning motivation through subjective learning well-being. Under emotional warmth parenting styles, students have higher subjective learning well-being and learning motivation. While under rejection parenting styles, subjective learning well-being is lower but learning motivation remains high. With over-protection parenting styles, subjective learning well-being is high but has a critical impact on learning motivation. Parenting styles also directly affect learning motivation. Therefore, parents should focus on their parenting approaches, providing emotionally warmth to enhance students’ subjective learning well-being and stimulate intrinsic motivation, facilitating a shift from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation in students’ learning.

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AU  - Yizhuo Fan
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/05/15
TI  - The Impact of Parenting Styles on Middle School Students’ Learning Motivation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Educational Development and Social Sciences (EDSS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 649
EP  - 660
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-400-6_76
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-400-6_76
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