Effect of Parental Involvement on Academic Stress Among Adolescents

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the effect of parental involvement on academic stress among adolescents. The present study was conducted on 200 students between 14-17 years of age from K.V. schools, Delhi. Two groups of high and low parental involvement were formed according to measured scores. Each group was having equal numbers of male and female students. Parental involvement was measured with the help of Parental Involvement Scale constructed by Dr. Vijya Laxmi Chouhan and Mrs. Gunjan Ganotra. Academic stress was measured by Academic Stress Scale developed by Dr. Uday Kumar Sinha. Two-way Analysis of variance was used to analyse the data. In the present study, effect of parental involvement on academic stress was found significant at .01 level of confidence and effect of gender difference was also found significant at .05 level of confidence. The interaction effect between parental involvement and gender was not found significant at any level of confidence. So, it can be concluded that parental involvement and gender were independently affecting level of academic stress among adolescent students significantly.