The relationship between role modeling perceptions and self‑regulation with gender, grade, and parents’ education levels as moderating variables

Karaca M., Bektaş O.

CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY, ss.1-22, 2022 (SSCI)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s12144-022-04172-x
  • Dergi Adı: CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, BIOSIS, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-22
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

A deep understanding of the relationship between self-regulation and role models can enrich the theoretical models that affect

the acquisition of self-regulation skills. This study aims to determine the moderating role demographic variables (i.e., gender,

grade, and parent’s education levels) have on the relationship between middle school students’ perceptions of role modeling and

their self-regulation. The study uses the explanatory correlation model, a correlational quantitative research design. The sample

consists of 1,100 students studying in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades of secondary schools during the 2018–2019 academic

year. The data have been analyzed using regression analysis in the package program SPSS 25 with the Process Macro plugin. The

study has concluded the variables of gender and parents’ education levels have a moderating effect on the relationship between

secondary school students’ perceptions toward role modeling and their self-regulation levels; grade level had no moderating

effect. This study indicated that the father’s education level had a more moderator effect on this relationship. These results are

valuable in terms of revealing that the education level of the mother and father, which is considered the only variable in the

studies, should be examined as two separate variables. The relationship between role modeling perceptions and self-regulation

can be examined from a broader perspective by considering sociocultural, sociodemographic, and socioeconomic variables.