Parental Age and Academic Self Concept of Secondary School Students

The adolescence is a very crucial period of any student's life. At this stage students face many psychological and sociological pressures in their life. Parental involvement and nature of parent student relation have an important impact on students’ academic self-concept as well as their overall academic performance. The aim of the present study was to examine the influence of parental age on secondary school students’ academic self-concept. The participants consisted of 615 secondary students of CBSE board, session 2016–17 of Varanasi city, India. Academic self-concept was measured using Kample & Naik (2013) Academic Self Concept Scale (ASCS). The result of the study revealed that parents’ age plays an important role in determining the academic self-concept of secondary school students. Students whose parents were younger keep higher academic self-concept than students whose parents were older. Mothers’ age plays an important role in students’ academic self-concept than fathers’ age. Finding of the study would be helpful in understanding the role of parental age and parent adolescent relation in adolescent students’ academic self-concept.