Parents Motivational Beliefs and Parental Involvement on Moral Values Cultivation of Muslim Children in Southern Thailand

Abstract

Childhood is the period when concepts of right and wrong are strongly developed, and the most crucial agent that contributes to childhood development is the parents. Hence, their roles in promoting their children's motivational beliefs and involvement in moral values are crucial. Moreover, the rapid development of technology as a sign of globalization has made most parents anxious about the development of their children, especially in moral and ethical aspects. Therefore, the purposes of this article are to explore the concept concerning about parents’ motivational beliefs, parental involvement, and the aspects of moral values cultivation. The result found that parent’s motivational beliefs were identified for parental beliefs about their obligations to assist their children and their abilities to have a meaningful effect which motivated by parent’s role construction (beliefs) for involvement, sense of efficacy for helping the child succeed in school, and religiosity (Influence of religion teaching). Parental involvement consisted of parenting, communicating, learning at home, volunteering, decision-making, and collaborating with the community. Moral values cultivation underlined on economical/frugality, honesty, cleanliness, concordance, and kindness which will be beneficial for parent’s schools and communities in infusing and promoting moral values through parents’ motivational beliefs and parental involvement in order to develop children to be perfect in all aspects and successful in real life.