Educational Expectations of Japanese Senior High School Students and Mothers:

Simultaneous Analysis of Student-Mother Dyadic Data with Interdependence Model

Abstract

     I applied the interdependence model to senior high school student-mother dyadic data and investigated different covariates' effects on students' and mothers' expectations simultaneously, controlling for the contemporaneous association between their expectations. Concerning post secondary educational expectations, the application of the method showed that students' average grades and the types and levels of high school attended had an effect on students' expectations. On the other hand, parental education, family income and the level of high school had an effect on mothers' expectations. In regards to four-year colleges, students' average grades and the types and levels of high school had an effect on students' expectations, while sex of the child and the number of children as well as parental education, family income and the level of high school had an effect on mothers' expectations. These results showed that family socioeconomic background variables had an effect on only mothers' expectations, controlling for the contemporaneous association between students and mothers.