Abstract:

The present study was to find out the academic achievement of parentally accepted and rejected boys and girls. For the purpose of identification of parentally accepted and rejected boys and girls, Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) Adolescent Form were administered to 400 adolescents (200 boys and 200 girls) of 11th and 12th classes were selected by random sampling technique. The score obtained by the sample subjects were arranged in descending order and extreme group technique were applied on the total sample from which upper 27% sample subjects who had high scores on adolescent PARQ were labeled as parentally rejected sample subjects and lower 27% sample subjects who had low scores on adolescents PARQ were termed as parentally accepted subjects. Out of 400 sample subject only 216 were considered as a final sample for the present study (108 in each group) in which 54 adolescent students were parentally accepted and rejected boys and 54 adolescent students were parentally accepted and rejected girls. Academic Achievement of the Secondary school students was taken as aggregate marks which they have obtained in their previous two year examinations.

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