Relationship Between Parental Encouragement And Academic Achievement

Abstract

Parental Encouragement is meant as the general process undertaken by the parents to motivate and giving directions to
the behaviour of the children towards high scholastic achievement. The main goal of the current study aims to identify
the relationship between Parental Encouragement and Academic Achievement of Higher Secondary School Students.
This study advocated with the Survey method and the researcher utilized the stratified random sampling technique. From
the Higher secondary schools of Trichy District, 100 samples were undergone this study. Parental Encouragement Scale
developed by Kusum Agarwal (1999) and for the academic achievement, Quarterly Exam Scores were considered as a
score. Major findings of this study shows that there is positive significant relationship between parental encouragement
and academic achievementof higher secondary school students.