Author(s): Guedes, Fábio Botelho ; Cerqueira, Ana ; Marques-Pinto, Alexandra ; Branco, Amélia ; Galvão, Cecília ; Sousa, Joana ; Goulão, Luis F. ; Bronze, Rosário ; Viegas, Wanda ; Gaspar, Tania ; Moreno, Carmen ; Matos, Margarida Gaspar de
Date: 2024
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/102686
Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Subject(s): school ecosystem; school–family communication; school–family relationship; youth
The aim of the study was to explore the factors and barri- ers related to the incentive and opportunity of school–fam- ily communication. This work is part of the HOUSE-Colégio F3 Project, ULisbon, which included 1,143 first-year uni- versity students from the University of Lisbon, with aver- age age of 19.61 ± 3.96 years. The young people who had better communication with their parents, greater family support and better family relationship were the ones who reported greater incentives for school–family communica- tion. School–family communication and relationship were associated with the incentives for school–family communi- cation and greater parental monitoring. These results align with the literature stating that parents' communication and presence in all areas of young people's lives, including the school context, foster better social and family relationships and academic results. This result should not be read as a call for non-autonomy. Instead, it highlights that monitoring and supporting family presence promotes that autonomy.
