Influence of parental encouragement on academic achievement of college students

Abstract

The survey method was conducted to study the parental encouragement and academic achievement of college students in UAS Dharwad campus. The stratified random sampling technique was used for selecting the sample from the population. The sample consists of 120 adolescents from Community Science College. Objective was to know the influence of parental encouragement on academic achievement of adolescents and to find out the factors influencing on parental encouragement of adolescents. Parental Encouragement Scale developed by Kusum Agarwal (1999), previous years scores were taken for the consideration of academic achievement and Kuppuswamy modified version 2021 SES scale was used to know the socio demographic profile of participants. The results revealed that familial factors significantly influenced the parental encouragement for students. Adolescents had high level of parental encouragement and significant association was found between adolescents in their parental encouragement. There is significant relationship between parental encouragement and academic achievement of higher secondary school students.