The Interplay of Socio-economic Status, Parental Academic Pressure and Ego Virtue of Fidelity: Gender Differences among Students

Page: 232-236
Sunbul Afaq and Roomana N. Siddiqui (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh)

Researches in the area of human development greatly emphasize the direct or indirect role that parents have on their child’s development. This study examined how the socio-economic status especially income of the family and education of both father and mother relates to parents’ academic pressure. Furthermore, the study also tries to assess gender specific relationships between adolescent’s perception of parental pressure and ego virtue of fidelity. A sample of 512 (258 male & 254 female) adolescents completed the questionnaires that measuring perceived parental pressure (separately for father & mother) and ego virtue of fidelity. The result suggests that for both male and female adolescents, perceived academic pressure from father was a significant negative predictor of ego virtue of fidelity. The findings further revealed that male students reported greater pressure to perform academically compared to female students. However, females reported higher levels of ego virtue of fidelity compared to male adolescent students.