“The effect of family type on the academic performance of engineering students in India”

Purpose: Research in the field of family studies have become a dynamic study area over the past few decades and is likely to become even more so as the importance of family is rapidly gaining momentum. Therefore understanding family studies and birth order will be viewed as increasingly important.

India has been regarded as the youngest country in the world by the UN as it has the world’s second largest population. Family type is one of the most neglected component in the Indian education system due to the complexity in its computation. Family shapes an individual’s personality, measured by big 5 personality traits of an individual (Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism) and controls the behavior of the person which has a strong relationship with the academic performance. This article aims at examining the relationship between Academic performance and family type of Engineering students.