Relation of Parenting Styles to Adolescent’s School Performance at Secondary Level

This study was designed to categorize the current parenting styles and to find out the relationship between a specific parenting style and the adolescents academic performance at secondary level. The parenting styles were categorized as democratic, autocratic and laissez faire. These three styles were measured through a questionnaire containing 45 Likert scale items. Adolescent’s school performance was measured by the results of 9th grade obtained through BISE Sargodha exam held in 2004(annual). The population for the study was boys and girls student of 10th grade. The sample consisted of 200 randomly selected students from eight secondary schools. Data was collected through questionnaire and result gazette of BISE Sargodha 2004(annual). Relationship between democratic parenting style and autocratic parenting style to board results of students was found insignificant. Relationship between laissez faire parenting style and the performance of students in board results was significant. Relationship between three parenting style in their rural and urban categories and the board results was insignificant except for laissez faire style of urban parents. It was recommended that parents should play their role in learning process of adolescents and they may be guided in expressing a style conducive for improving performance of their adolescents at schools.