A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF TRIBAL ADOLESCENT GIRLS OF ASSAM

Mrs. Anindita Das

Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2016

A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF TRIBAL ADOLESCENT GIRLS OF ASSAM

Mrs. Anindita Das

Abstract :

In the present study an investigation was made to find out the effect of parental encouragement of tribal adolescent girls of Assam on their academic performance. The Researcher had selected 350 secondary school girls giving representation to types of school management and family type. The parental encouragement scale developed by R.R. Sharma was used as tool and academic performance scores has taken from school record. Pearson�s product moment correlation was applied to find out the relationship and ‘t‘ test was applied to find out the significance of difference between different variables. The study found that there is a positive correlation between academic performance and parental encouragement of tribal adolescent girls of Assam. The study also found that there is a significant difference in the parental encouragement of tribal adolescent girls belonging to nuclear and joint family