Parents’ perception about children’s academic stress and child care related issues

Pages: 608-612
Sibnath Deb and Aneesh Kumar (Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry)
Banhishikha Bhattacharyya (Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata)
Sun Jiandong (Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia)

The present study intends to understand the parents’ perception about children’s academic stress and child care related issues. A group of 139 parents, 68 fathers and 71 mothers, participated in the study voluntarily and they were selected following convenience sampling technique. In order to achieve the objective of the study, a specially designed semi-structured questionnaire was used. Findings disclosed that about one-third of the fathers (29.4%) and one-tenth of the mothers (9.9%) frankly admitted that they could not provide quality care and guidance to their children and in this regard significant difference was observed between fathers and mothers (p<.05). More than four-fifth of the parents stated that they should be friendly with their children so that children feel comfortable to share their personal issues with them. More than one-fifth fathers (27.9%) and one-fourth mothers (16.9%) applied corporal punishment as they believed it is necessary to discipline them and/or for better academic performance.