For a better understanding of the relations between socioeconomic status, parental educational values and principles, children’s academic performances and self-evaluations
The first aim of this study is to verify in a population of parents and French elementary school’s children, the validity of Lautrey’s results (1980) which associated the parental socioeconomic status and the educational values and principles. Furthermore, our study tries to shed light on the proximity between educative principles and values, and children’s academic performances and self-evaluations. For this sample of 126 children (from 8 to 10 years), Lautrey’s conclusions seem on the whole verified, with however some nuances. The analyzes of correspondences highlight the existence of complex and evolutionary relations between the various variables. Although we can noticed a certain proximity between socioeconomic status, educational values and school performances, the relation with self-evaluations seems more complex, and is also dependent on the age of the children.