The 6th year data from the ‘Korean Education Longitudinal Study 2005’ was used test the impact
parental academic support has on the self-concept (social self-concept, family self-concept, physical selfconcept,
and academic self-concept) of the adolescent. In analyzing the data, variables were extracted from
a series of exploratory factor analysis, and the results were generated by using the multiple linear
regression method. As expected, the results showed that parental academic support had significant effect on
all dimensions of the adolescent’s self-concept, and had especially high explanatory effect on the family
self-concept of the adolescent. These results remained constant even after controlling for the parental
emotional support variable. This in other words meant that the academic support of the parent is a form
of positive social support that stands apart from the emotional support. The results propose a need for
further research on forming a more elaborate conceptualization of ‘parental academic support’, and a more
intricate model that will explain the process of how parental academic support positively influences the
self-concept of the adolescent.