The present study was designed to investigate the impact of parenting and its modes (rejection vs acceptance, carelessness vs protection, neglect vs indulgence, utopian expectation vs realism, lenient standard vs moralism, freedom vs discipline, faulty role expectation vs realistic role expectation; and marital conflict vs marital adjustment) on academic attainment of school students. While employing descriptive survey method, the present study was conducted on a sample of 400 school students. The sample was selected by using random sampling techniques. Academic attainment of school students was assessed on the basis of percentage of marks obtained in previous class. Parenting Scale developed by Bhardwaj, Sharma and Garg was used for data collection. Means, SDs were worked out to describe the nature of the data and “t” test was applied to test the significance of different groups. The findings revealed significant impact of parenting on academic attainment of school students. Significant impact of mothering and fathering on academic attainment of school students were also observed. The findings suggested that parents must think to the ways and means to encourage and foster abilities among students to enhance their academic attainment. Intermittent contacts with the teachers serve as a monitoring function that allows the parents to receive the feedback about their child development.
Parenting, Academic Attainment, Secondary School Students
