Abstract:
The current study aimed to identify the level of perceived academic
parental involvement and academic motivation, and fnd out whether there are
differences in the level of perceived academic parental involvement according
to the gender and academic specialization variables. It also aimed to explor
the prediction capability of the perceived academic parental involvement in
academic motivation. To achieve the objective of the study, academic parental
involvement scale, and academic motivation scale were used. The study
sample consisted of )546( male and female secondary school students in the
Zarqa frst directorate of education who were were chosen by an available
method. The results of the study showed that the level of perceived academic
parental involvement and academic motivation was high and that there were
no statistically signifcant differences in the level of perceived academic
parental involvement due to gender and academic specialization. They
results also showed that there were statistically signifcant differences in the
level of decision-making in the dimensions of perceived academic parental
involvement due to gender, in favor of male, and also in the level of decisionmaking in the dimensions of perceived academic parental involvement due to
academic specialization, in favor of scientifc specialization. Furthermore, the
results also showed that perceived academic parental involvement explained
)15.1%( of the total variance in the academic motivation.
