Relationship of different dimensions of home environment and academic achievement of adolescents

Pages: 563-568
Gumpul Rana (Department of Psychology, Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha)

The primary objectives were to study (i) the relationship between the different dimensions of home environment and academic achievement of adolescents; and (ii) to predict academic achievement from the dimensions of home environment. Correlational design was used on a group of 60 adolescents (30 males & 30 females) studying in a +2 college. ‘Home Environment Inventory’ (HEI) developed by Mishra was used and the average of last two percentage of examination scores were used as academic achievement scores. The correlation of the ten dimensions of home environment and academic achievement revealed that four dimensions of the home environment namely social isolation, reward, deprivation of privileges and rejection significantly correlated with academic achievement at 0.01 level; and two dimensions namely control and punishment significantly correlated with academic achievement at 0.05 level. Step-wise multiple regression analysis revealed that the value of the multiple correlation coefficient (R) of the four significant predictor variables namely deprivation of privileges, reward, rejection and protectiveness with academic achievement was 0.864. The value of ‘R square’ was found to be 0.747, which means these four dimensions explained 74.7 % of the total explainable variance of the criterion variable. The values of regression coefficients (B) were, -0.320 for deprivation of privileges, 0.714 for reward, -0.500 for rejection and -0.293 for protectiveness. The value of intercept or constant was found to be 74.715.