Can High Involvement of Roma Parents Combat the Impact of Poverty? Resilience and Parental Involvement in the Success of Roma Students at School from the Students’ Perspective

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: A recurring question in Romani studies is why it is difficult to achievebreakthrough successes in inclusion programs. These programs focus mainly on school subjects,although the role of parents is crucial to solving the problem. This study, therefore, concerns par-ents and their roles in school success.THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The purpose of this study is 1) to reveal howRoma and non‑Roma pupils perceive their parents’ involvement (PI) and 2) to come closer to ex-plaining how PI affects students’ school success under the control of other variables. The analysissheds light on the views of children of Roma and non‑Roma parents in Hungary. Cross‑tabulationanalysis and linear regression analysis were applied THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The database called Discovery of Hidden Value of Men‑toring (DHVM) was analysed, which includes data from 13–14-year‑old students (N=206; 31.1%Roma, 68.9% non‑Roma).RESEARCH RESULTS: For all school‑based and home‑based PI indicators apart from one(parent–teacher conferences), Roma and non‑Roma parents showed the same results. A student’sdisadvantaged financial situation most strongly determined their level of school success, overridingthe compensatory effect of PI. The variance explained by the regression model was 30.4%, andthe model was significant (F(7) 5.18, p