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Title:: Parent-Child Discrepancies in Educational Expectations andAspirations: Conceptualization, Research and Prospects

Author(s):: LUO Liang; GUO Xiaolin; LUO Liang, PhD in psychology and Young Chang Jiang Scholar, is Professor andPhD Supervisor at Coordinated Innovation Center for China’s Basic Education Quality Monitoring, BeijingNormal University, and Director of Institute of Developmental Psychology Research ( a key research basefor humanities and social sciences sponsored by Ministry of Education ), Beijing Normal University ( Beijing100875 ); GUO Xiaolin, PhD in psychology, is Lecturer at Coordinated Innovation Center for China’s BasicEducation Quality Monitoring, Beijing Normal University ( Beijing 100875 ).

Keywords:: parent-child discrepancies in educational expectations and aspirations; individual development; influencing factors

Abstract:: As an important predictor of individual educational attainment, educational expectations andaspirations are of great significance for an individual’s development and the quality of overall nationalpopulation, which have attracted many researchers’ attention. Previous studies mainly focused on the role ofparents’ educational expectations and aspirations on their children and the role of children’s own educationalexpectations and aspirations in improving cheir development. However, inadequate attention has been givento the discrepancies between parents’ and their educational expectations and aspirations ( i.e. parent-childdiscrepancies in educational expectations and aspirations ). Therefore, this study analyzes the multi-disciplinarytheoretical and empirical studies in this field, putting forward the conceptual framework of parent-childdiscrepancies in educational expectations and aspirations, elaborating the findings on the relations betweenparent-child discrepancies in educational expectations and aspirations and an individual’s development,and exploring the factors that may influence the parent-child discrepancies in educational expectations andaspirations. Furthermore, this study points out the future directions for the studies on parent-child discrepanciesin educational expectations and aspirations.