This longitudinal study investigated the cross-lagged associations between children's academic skill development, task-avoidant behaviour in the context of homework, and parental beliefs about their child's success from kindergarten to Grade 2. The participants were 1267 children. The children's pre-skills were assessed at the end of the kindergarten year, and math and reading skills at the end of Grade 1 and Grade 2. Parents provided ratings of their beliefs about their children's school success and task-avoidant behaviour with regard to homework at the end of Grades 1 and 2. The results showed that children's math and reading skills predicted children's task-avoidant behaviour regarding homework as rated by mothers, but not by fathers, when autoregressive effects were taken into account. In addition, task-avoidant behaviour predicted the mothers' subsequent beliefs about their children's school success but not vice versa. A reciprocal effect was found between fathers' beliefs about success and children's task-avoidance. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Nanjing Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Nanjing, Peoples R ChinaNanjing Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Nanjing, Peoples R China
Zhao, Ying
Wu, Xinchun
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Beijing Normal Univ, Fac Psychol, Res Ctr Childrens Reading & Learning, Beijing Key Lab Appl Expt Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China
Beijing Normal Univ Zhuhai, Sch Appl Psychol, Zhuhai, Guangdong, Peoples R ChinaNanjing Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Nanjing, Peoples R China
Wu, Xinchun
Sun, Peng
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Zibo Normal Coll, Dept Presch Educ, Zibo, Shandong, Peoples R ChinaNanjing Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Nanjing, Peoples R China
Sun, Peng
Chen, Hongjun
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Beijing Normal Univ Zhuhai, Sch Appl Psychol, Zhuhai, Guangdong, Peoples R ChinaNanjing Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Nanjing, Peoples R China
Chen, Hongjun
Wang, Haolan
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Beijing Normal Univ, Fac Psychol, Res Ctr Childrens Reading & Learning, Beijing Key Lab Appl Expt Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R ChinaNanjing Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Nanjing, Peoples R China
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Department of Child and Family Studies, Syracuse University, 144H White Hall, Syracuse, 13244, NYDepartment of Child and Family Studies, Syracuse University, 144H White Hall, Syracuse, 13244, NY