Parental factors, achievement motivation and performance of adolescents

Pages: 66-70
Anubhuti Dubey and Arpita Srivastava (Department of Psychology, D.D.U Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur)
This study examines parental factors and achievement motivation and its relation to performance of adolescents. The sample comprised of sixty students of class 11th. The research is based on their expected and achieved scores of class-10. To assess achievement motivation and parental factors the questionnaires are used. Data was analyzed using two way analysis of variance and multiple regression statistical analysis. Results indicated that High performance group of students have more achievement motivation in comparison to Low performance group of students. The scores on parental factors are also high in High performance group. Amongst the four parental factors, Parental approval emerged as the most significant predictor of achievement motivation and performance followed by resources made available by parents, parental encouragement, and parental pressure. The high performance group girls are more future oriented with high level of aspiration as their expected and achieved scores are less discrepant, however, the same is not true for low performance both boys and girls. They expected more and achieved less than their expectation. These findings imply that in the order to improve children’s education, parental approval warrants the future orientation.