From Home to Classroom: How Parenting Styles and Parents’ Education Shape Students’ Academic Achievement

Abstract

Academic performance is one of most crucial determinants of success during secondary school years, which is influenced by many factors such as parenting style and parental education. The present study aimed to find out the impact of parenting style and parents’ education on academic performance of secondary school students. All the male and female students of 10th class of Govt. and private schools in Sargodha city were the population of the study. Students were selected through multistage sampling and sample size for population were (N=300). Questionnaire was adapted from Black dog institute- measure of parental style (Parker et al., 1997) and (Robinson et al., 1995) to measure independent variables of the study. For data analysis frequencies, percentages mean, One-way ANOVA and two-way ANOVA was used to compare students’ achievement scores with respect to their parenting style. It was found that majority of parents have democratic style with their kids, the impact of the parenting style on achievement scores of students was not significant, the effect of the parenting style on achievement scores of secondary school students with respect to their gender, background and type of instruction were not significant. the impact of education of father on academic achievements of children at secondary level was significant students whose father is under graduated /graduated are better in academic achievements than all other students whose father’s education is secondary/higher secondary, middle, primary and whose father is uneducated, the impact of education of mother on academic scores of secondary school children in Sargodha city was significant students whose mother is under graduated /graduated are better in academic achievements than all other students whose mother’s education is middle. Parents may adapt democratic parenting style and avoid authoritarian and permissive parenting style.