Study Habits among Secondary School Students in Relation to their Parenting Styles

In this study the study habits had been studied in relation to Parenting Styles. In order to conduct the study, six schools had been selected randomly from Kapurthala Distt. Further the study had been conducted on 250 students of 9th class randomly selected from private and government schools. The selected group had been categorized according to their parenting styles viz-a-viz-(authoritarian, authoritative and permissive parenting). Further the data had been analyzed and statistical treatment had been given. The findings of the study reflect that parental styles effects significantly the study habits. Parenting is complex activity that includes many specific behaviors that work individual and together to influences child out comes.