Effect of parenting style on academic achievement of senior secondary school students: An analytical analysis

The present study was undertaken to examine academic achievement of senior secondary school students in relation to their perceived parenting style. Academic achievement was treated as dependent variable, whereas parenting style (Autocratic, democratic, permissive and uninvolved) and demographic variables: type of school (Govt. & Private) and gender (Male & Female) were treated as independent variables. Descriptive survey method was employed for the present study. A sample of 598 students was taken using multi-stage random sampling technique. Parenting Style Scale by Gupta and Mehtani (2017) was used to collect the data and Three-Way ANOVA with 4×2×2 factorial design was used to analyze the data. Levene's Test of Homogeneity of Variance was also applied to test the assumption of homogeneity of variance for ANOVA. Main effect of parenting style and gender on academic achievement of senior secondary school students was found to be significant. However, no significant effect of type of school was reported. No significant interaction effect of parenting style and type of school & type of school and gender was found on academic achievement of senior secondary school students. On the other side, significant interaction effect of parenting style and gender was reported on academic achievement of senior secondary school students. Triple interaction effect of parenting style, type of school and gender on academic achievement of senior secondary school students was found to be insignificant.