Relationship between parental encouragement and academic achievement of secondary school students

The present study has been taken to find out the ‘Relationship Between Parental Encouragement and Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students. To conduct this study hundred students from different secondary schools were taken as sample. Parental Encouragement Scale developed by Kusum Aggarwal (1999) and For the collection of Academic Achievement of the secondary school students marks obtained in Xth class Board examination, the handwritten performa were used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics was applied. Correlation was worked out to find the relationship between the two variables: Parental Encouragement And Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students. The result shows that there is significant relationship between Parental Encouragement and Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students. Further, the results shows that there is significant relationship between parental encouragement and academic achievement of secondary school boys and girls. Significant relationship has also been found between parental encouragement and academic achievement of rural and urban secondary school students.