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. 2023 Jan 27:1–25. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s11218-023-09765-3

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics and correlations of the main study variables (N = 606)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
1. Educational aspirations
2. Academic self-regulation .29**
3. Goal valuation .32** .65**
4. Attitudes toward teachers .14** .60** .46**
5. Academic self-perception .26** .72** .35** .51**
6. Academic performance .52** .44** .35** .25** .46**
7. Mother's aspirations .60** .16** .20** .11** .18** .35**
8. Father's aspirations .58** .19** .20** .13** .18** .35** .77**
9. Friends' aspirations .51** .18** .21** .14** .12** .26** .42** .42**
10. Maternal attachment .13** .35** .26** .38** .33** .07 .04 .06 .04
11. Paternal attachment .07 .35** .22** .38** .37** .08* .02 .06 .05 .53**
12. Peer attachment .16** .18** .15** .32** .19** .10* .15** .15** .13** .29** .26**
13. Mother's educational level .08 .04 .02 .04 .09* .07 .09* .08* .05 .05 - .01 .03
14. Father's educational level .05 .10* .09* .04 .08 .03 .04 .08* .04 .06 .06 .03 .41**
15. Family affluence .11** .15** .13** .12** .13** .07 .05 .08* .07 .24** .17** .12** .24** .23**
M 4.66 47.70 34.76 35.75 27.03 3.00 4.73 4.73 4.57 79.45 78.36 90.31 3.22 3.43 3.74
SD 0.97 11.64 6.49 8.13 8.35 1.33 0.91 0.91 0.99 18.01 19.10 15.99 1.05 1.12 1.60
Skewness -0.17 -0.57 -1.32 -0.68 -0.10 0.06 0.01 0.01 - 0.24 -0.09 -0.06 -0.18 0.94 0.67 -0.08
Kurtosis -0.35 0.18 2.34 0.64 -0.29 -1.15 -0.59 -0.76 0.41 -0.30 -0.37 -0.39 0.50 -0.14 -0.72

*p < .05; **p < .01