The Influence of Parenting Style on the Self-efficacy of Middle School Students

Nowadays, in China, with the increasing academic pressure, parents have increasingly strict requirements for their children's grades. Most parents and teachers blame their students for not improving their grades on their abilities and exert greater pressure on them. As a result, students experience more frequent occurrences of depression and anxiety. Investigations have shown that academic self-efficacy and student performance are significantly correlated. Nevertheless, academic self-efficacy is influenced by a wide variety of contextual factors. As a group of people that students come into contact with from birth, parents and their parenting style greatly affect the formation of students' development. The purpose of this study is to ascertain how parenting practices affect middle school pupils' development of academic self-efficacy. Based on the findings, this paper brings about suggestions about how to modify parenting styles and improve students' self-efficacy. Therefore, this study may provide some reference for future research in this area.