Parental involvement is defined as the degree to which parents are dedicated to their parental roles and accelerate their children’s optimal development (Maccoby & Martin, 1983). We can distinguish between parental involvement in general and in the educational field. In the educational field we can make the difference between behavioural, personal and cognitive involvement (Grolnick & Slowiaczek, 1994). A lot of researches (Hill, Castellino, Lansford, Nowlin, Dodge, Bates, & Pettit, 2004; Rosenzweig, 2001; Steinberg, Lamborn, Dornbusch & Darling, 1992) have tried to prove the existence of connections between parental involvement in educational process and their children’s success at school, their expectations and wishes about their future choice of career, and eventual behavioural difficulties. Not only research, in promoting achievement across elementary and secondary school levels, theories and policies also have identified the significant role of families, family-school relations, and parental involvement in education (Hill & Tyson, 2009). In the study we researched the factor structure (types) of parental involvement in education of their children and the relation between parental involvement and children’s age, gender and self-perception and parents’ education.  

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