PARENT-CHILD INTERACTION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: AN EXPLORATION
Abstract
Different kinds of parenting style impact the development differently on the adolescents. It is necessary for the parents to provide best possible environment at home, to create a conducive, fostering and supportive experiences for smooth transition from adolescence into adulthood. The parent-child relationship consists of combination of behaviour, feelings and expectations that are unique to a particular parents and a particular child. The relationship involves the full extent of a child’s development. Th quality of parents-child relationship is affected by parent’s age, experience and self confidence and the stability of the parent’s marriage. The study was conducted to find out the difference between low & high achiever boys and girls when all areas of parental-press taken as dependnt variables. By using random sampling technique, a sample of 250 students was selected from Samba district in Jammu and Kashmir state. Parental-press inventory was used to measure the awareness of parents in five areas of child’s education and the personality in which parents take interest. In the present study t-test was used to find out the difference between two means. Result of the study REVEALED significant difference between low and high achiever girls in emotional and moral areas of parental-press.
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