Filial Dynamics Better Than School-Driven Parent-Child Interactions? Cultural Activities With Parents Increase High School Education Completion Rates

A team of researchers from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom recently discovered that filial dynamics has great effects on education, especially on the adolescent stage. In the study, teens aged 10 to 15 who actively participate in cultural activities with their parents have greater chances of continuing or completing high school education.

These cultural activities like museum trips or book discussion with parents have reportedly made more impact on teenagers than those homework clubs. Filial dynamics is also more influential than school-related extracurricular activities, Headlines & Global News notes.

"Filial dynamics such as emotional closeness to parents and cultural capital were better predictors than more school-driven parent-child interactions," University of Warwick's Center for Education Studies associate professor and lead study author Dimitra Hartas said.

Aside from filial dynamics, the research also revealed that self-efficacy significantly predicted education aspirations. According to Science Daily, those teens who are less confident at solving problems are reportedly less likely to think that graduating high school is important.

Unfortunately, filial dynamics was not found to be significant in predicting a desire to attend university. But the study found that there is no shortage in young people's educational aspirations.

"These findings have significant implications for family and educational policy, especially with regard to 'raising aspirations' and reducing early school leaving," Hartas and her team wrote.

The researchers also added that their recent findings spark the issue of reconsidering home environment's role in the emotional and intellectual aspects on the relationships between parents and children. They also emphasized that discussions on teenagers' educational aspirations should not be opposed but cognizant of opportunity ideas and what young people make of it, Futurity reports.

Meanwhile, the study titled, "Young people's educational aspirations: psychosocial factors and the home environment," has been published in the Journal of Youth Studies. Do you think filial dynamics can increase the rates of high school education completion?