Aim:

Parents commonly use homework as a mean to remind school age children of the necessity to take responsibility for one’s own tasks. In this study, the relationships between taking responsibility, and anxiety were investigated within the scope of the children’s ability to “do their homework on their own.”

Method:

In this study, The Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) and State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) were administered to 97 students who were attending 6th grade at a public school. The mean age of students was 11 years 4 months. The parents of these students, on the other hand, were administered with the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Among the study participants; the group of students who completed their homework on their own and the group of students who completed their homework with the aid of their parents were comparatively analyzed.

Results and conclusion:

Among the 97 study participants; 59 (60.8%) indicated on their scales that they completed their homework on their own, while 38 (39.2%) indicated that they completed their homework with the aid of their parents. Between the two groups, the differences with respect to the STAI and STAIC were statistically significant (p<0.05). The mean scores for STAI and STAIC were higher in the group in which children completed their homework with the aid of their parents. Metacognitive ability did not transform among the children into a tendency to perform tasks completely on their own appeared to be related to the anxiety expressed by these students and their parents, with the anxiety from the parents’ part being more pronounced.

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