Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The IIS University, Jaipur-302020, Rajasthan, India
Online published on 20 April, 2017.
The aim of the study was to study the relationship between parental involvement and procrastination on a sample of 500 adolescent students. The sample consisted of 500 secondary school students (250 girls and 250 boys) studying in ninth and tenth classes (aged 13 to 15 years). These students were subjected to measures of procrastination given by Lay (Form G, 1986) and Academic Procrastination (Milgram & Amir, 1998) and three measures of Parental Involvement Scale including cognitive stimulation, cognitive behaviour and personal involvement developed by Trama, 1998). The hypothesis that there would be negative relationship between procrastination and parental involvement has been supported in case of total sample, for boys only in case of general procrastination, and for girls in case of academic procrastination, and general procrastination and all parental involvement variables except for father's cognitive behaviour and father's cognitive stimulation. The results reveal that boys are less tolerant towards interference by parents in their studies as compared to girls. This explains insignificant relations obtained for academic procrastination on all parental variables for boys.
