The present study investigated the parent child interaction of secondary school students in relation to academic stress and family climate. The research investigation was carried out on 100 students of class IX selected randomly from two high schools of Chandigarh affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education. The scale of academic stress taken from Bisht Battery of Stress Scales by Bisht (1987), Family Climate Scale by Shah(2001) and Parent Child Interaction Scale by Sharma(2000) were used as instruments for data collection in this study. Achievement scores were taken as cumulative percentage of marks obtained by students in the house test, unit tests and annual examination. A two way 2×2×2 Analysis of Variance was used to arrive at the following conclusions: (i) High achievers show superior parent child interaction as compared to low achievers. (ii) Parent child interactions of high and low academic stress groups were not different. (iii) Parent Child Interactions of interactive and passive family climate groups were not different.(iv)Academic achievement and academic stress operate independent of each other in respect of parent child interactions. (v) Academic achievement and family climate operate independent of each other in respect of parent child interactions. (vi) There exists significant interaction effect of academic stress and family climate on parent child interaction.(vii) Academic achievements, academic stress and family climate operate independent of one another in respect of parent child interaction.
Parent Child Interaction, Achievement, Academic Stress, Family Climate
